From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9937 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Slow header download on one group Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:53:33 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195573235 29013 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2007 15:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 16:40:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuVDD-0008KX-Ha for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:40:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuVCz-0003Sf-M4 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:40:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QqQzzEy05bD0+RNT8alIQihXo1c= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 52 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:80146 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9937 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka writes: >>>>>> Patrick May wrote: >> I see especially slow header downloads when accessing one >> particular newsgroup. Even if that group shows only a dozen unread >> posts, it loads much more slowly than a groups with over a hundred. [ . . . ] >> Could fragmentation in .newsrc.eld be the source of the problem? > > I don't think so. Though I haven't tried supernews.com, I guess > there might be a big gap between old article numbers and latest ones > in the server. What does evaluating the following Lisp form return? > > (gnus-active "news.group.name") (1122781 . 1963402) > It says for my local news server as: > > (gnus-active "gnu.emacs.gnus") > => (57391 . 59194) > > but for news.motzarella.org it says: > > (gnus-active "nntp+motzarella:gnu.emacs.gnus") > => (156 . 30068314) > > In the later case, Gnus consumes memory wastefully and takes time > while fetching headers even if there are no more than hundreds > articles. My difference is 840 thousand or so. Is that enough to be a problem? > For such cases Gnus offers a workaround. If it is just your case, > try setting the `gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles' variable to a > certain number. For example: > > (setq gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles 10000) > > It lets Gnus disregard old articles than the latest 10000 articles > in all groups and work fast. I'll give that a try. Thanks for the help! Regards, Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ S P Engineering, Inc. | Large scale, mission-critical, distributed OO | systems design and implementation. pjm@spe.com | (C++, Java, Common Lisp, Jini, middleware, SOA)