From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1369 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Slow reading new news: explanation Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:53:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87adl4lh6d.fsf@gvdnet.dk> <873cqwgik9.fsf@gvdnet.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668159 11022 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:42:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:42:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:03 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1035474869 523 217.13.230.178 (24 Oct 2002 15:54:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Oct 2002 15:54:29 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+s1lydKIZXtGnPfSizjPifiH79I= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1509 Original-Lines: 39 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1509 Tue Jan 17 17:29:03 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1369 Archived-At: Martin Christensen writes: >>>>>> "Jesper" == Jesper Harder writes: >>> Simply by hitting a wrong key in the group buffer did I >>> accidentally put the nntp backend under Agent management -- >>> something that I thought Gnus had automatically done for me, since >>> I'd recently upgraded from CVS, and I'd never knowingly touched any >>> Agent settings. > Jesper> The behaviour changed recently to turn the agent on by default > Jesper> -- so you don't necessarily have to hit the wrong key to > Jesper> enable the agent unknowingly. From 'GNUS-NEWS': > > The slowdown started not immediately after upgrading Gnus, but only > some time after when I specifically recall hitting a wrong key or two > (I was typing in a different frame than I thought I were). But of > course, enabling the agent by default along with the following gold > nugget from the changelog, > > 2002-08-26 Simon Josefsson > > * gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-auto-agentize-methods): New variable. > (gnus-agentize): Auto agentize all nntp and nnimap groups. > (gnus-agent-possibly-save-gcc): Autoload. > Suggested by (KOSEKI Yoshinori) . > > isn't exactly helpful when you don't expect that kind of behaviour. > What is the reasoning behind agentising by default? Without knowing > anything for sure I would assume that the people using Gnus, and in > particular the development version, would be the kind of users with > the least need for such a feature, though of course it's attractive > to some users. > > I think that a word of warning about slowdowns should be added to the > documentation. The point of the change was to speed up Gnus. A slowdown is not to be expected. I think you see a bug, could you make a bug report? Ideally including the profiling and protocol traces you mentioned in your earlier message.