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Re: fetching news from localhost takes a long time
From: |
Neil Woods |
Subject: |
Re: fetching news from localhost takes a long time |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:30:23 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, Nov 03 2004, Al Arduengo wrote:
> I use leafnode and gnus 5.10.6. For some reason I cannot seem to
> ascertain when I press 'g' in the group buffer, it takes about 10
> seconds to fetch and process new news no matter the volume. I would
> expect it to take only a few seconds since it is coming from the local
> spool. I set check-new-newsgroups to nil and read-active-file to nil.
> Is there a way to speed things up or determine where the delay is
> being encountered? Knode is quicker by far. So is Pan.
>
> 256M on a 12G HDD with 5G available. Thinkpad A20M 700MHz processor.
This is a known issue with Gnus 5.10.6, discussed here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56080
Fortunatly, recent CVS versions of Gnus have fixed this. You can check
out this branch with:
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:gnus@cvs.gnus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot co -r v5-10 gnus
or, if you are using Debian, is now available in the latest builds
available in the unstable dist.
Another thing. If you've set gnus-fetch-old-headers to t (which I do),
this can considerably slow things down (though it's usefulness far
outweighs this, IMHO).
--
Neil