Re: Gnus + Leafnode = 10 minutes to start

[Stepan Golosunov <stepan@golosunov.pp.ru>]

SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> writes:

> * Charles philip Chan wrote in gnu.emacs.gnus:
>> On 29 Dec 2006, 99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid wrote:
>
>>> it is recreating the entire Usenet hierarchy in
>>> ~News/marks/localhost/*
>
>> Did you look in the directories? They only contain a .marks file.
>
> No, but why would it mark what is not necessary?
>
>>> ...  uk uq uunet vegas wales world yu ukc ural uva verio wanadoo
>>> worldnet yuba ukonline us uvic vgc wanadoouk wpg z- ukr usask uvm vic
>>> wash wpi za ukrainet usa-today uw video weblogic wri zen ...
>
>> Are you subscribed to all these groups?
>
> absolutley not.
>
> [04:34 PM][J:0][sinner@~]$ cat .newsrc | grep ':'
> alt.comp.os.linux: 1-64
> alt.games.mame: 1-902,1598,1600
> alt.os.linux: 1-1081,1433,2586,2588,2594-2595,2605-2606
> alt.os.linux.debian: 1-213
> alt.os.linux.ubuntu: 1-1231
> alt.smokers.cigars: 1-1553
> news.software.readers: 1-3000,3090-3092

And without grep there are many more lines? Gnus is reading these
groups too. You should kill all groups you are not going to read.