From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4046 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: 3rd posting: please help -- gnus almost unusable Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:01:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670057 21585 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:09 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uio.no!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:01:38 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:38lcvuTdPQ0+78dERLU+LlpUk/U= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.93.85.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-FYeUnFi0Z/UOc73H++dWZvgLERoKgmW/Tr7kpIgaap7nRfb5znm9GZbEhMF7QYNMBZGns4GxEgurNlD!QptpuGUZf8GXr594FBUmy0HWFUT2UYkHG+WNq1fshZXcQ3rlU6E66mcZ4PIHCo5NmSFtpmOZyvtR!w3pvPC0As6/JQ7Hg Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.13 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4187 Original-Lines: 55 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4187 Tue Jan 17 17:33:09 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4046 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "ms" == Michael Slass writes: ms> Hi: ms> My gnus is almost unusable: each time I try to fetch new news and mail ms> (G in group buffer), gnus spends *forever* doing: ms> gnus-active-to-gnus-format((nntp "news.comcast.giganews.com") list of groups here> ms> The long list of groups contains almost entirely groups I don't ever ms> read. How can I purge the list, or what can I do to make this faster? ms> I've already added: ms> (setq gnus-read-active-file 'nil) ms> to my .gnus in attempt to fix this, to no avail Have you tried all of this from the manual? `gnus-read-active-file' Set this to `nil', which will inhibit Gnus from requesting the entire active file from the server. This file is often v. large. You also have to set `gnus-check-new-newsgroups' and `gnus-check-bogus-newsgroups' to `nil' to make sure that Gnus doesn't suddenly decide to fetch the active file anyway. If you have only nntp groups, you can move aside your .newsrc.eld and restart gnus. You will lose your read/unread/ticked marks, any topic settings and levels, but gnus will initialize a new .newsrc.eld based on the contents of .newsrc with your new settings. Also, as was noted in another post, it should be (setq gnus-read-active-file nil) regards, roland - -- PGP Key ID: 66 BC 3B CD Roland B. Roberts, PhD RL Enterprises roland@rlenter.com 6818 Madeline Court roland@astrofoto.org Brooklyn, NY 11220 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBQSTrAeoW38lmvDvNAQFoKQP+NTrjBLrk5jqK1Pb1SLMu6mOsefDfZ6++ e2phJvhumEFEEbRiojaSiAE0uPGeFAVXXaWnsFOXHUfXi8kBf7eewtKeZkcdZfwg 2ELM8who6GtAfmFw+AushZdcDos/IxCYJs0rtCUxkkNcwnzaw6PzubhTgbysh153 j+q6Vcyb/ME= =TbWP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----