Re: Why has my gnus becomes so slow?

[Andy Stewart]

>>>>> "Victor" == Victor S Miller <victor@algebraic.org> writes:

Hi, Victor.

------------------------------> leafnode instro start 
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 Leafnode is a news server suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites
 with only a few users ('leaf' sites). It keeps track of which groups are being
 read, and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been
 designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.

------------------------------> leafnode instro end   
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Because gnus get news is implement as elisp, and gnus is same process
with emacs.
So if gnus get many news self, will make it freeze too long.

leafnode can get news from server in background, so gnus just to read
localhost from leafnode and don't spend much time on get news.

My gnus always very fast when i use leafnode to get news.

You can get it from 
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net

If you use Debian, it's very simply, just:

1. -> sudo aptitude install leafnode

2. -> After leafnode, it will ask:
"Which news server should Leafnode download news from?"
And type your like news server, like me: news.cn99.com

3. -> Then ask:
" What type of network connection do you have?"
And select your network connection, like me: permanent 

And it's all.

Last, 
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "localhost"))

And guns will have wonderful speed.

Have fun! :)

Regards.

Andy.

>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Stewart <lazycat.manatee@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> "Victor" == Victor S Miller <victor@algebraic.org> writes:
    Andy>  Hi.  Because gnus have to get news from server.  You can install
    Andy>  leafnode to get news from news server.  So gnus is fast when it
    Andy>  just one news reader.

    Victor> Andy, Thanks for the reply.  What is "leafnode" and where do I get 
it?
    Victor> In the meantime I found that I had had gnus-agent set to 't, when I
    Victor> set it back to nil I found that at least it didn't take much time to
    Victor> get news from the new server.  However, it still takes a really long
    Victor> time for it to read all of my nnml directories.  It never used to do
    Victor> this, and I'm at a loss to see how I can change it back.  I did make
    Victor> sure that I set gnus-nov-is-evil to nil, and regenerated the 
.overview
    Victor> files.  However, that didn't have any (noticeable) effect.

    Victor> Victor


    Andy>  Note, after you install leafnode, you set your
    Andy>  gnus-select-method with "localhost", like below: (setq
    Andy>  gnus-select-method '(nntp "localhost"))

    Victor>  In the last week or so gnus has become absurdly slow to start
    Victor>  up (or get new news).  Typically it now takes over 5 minutes
    Victor>  while gnus is reading the active file from the news server,
    Victor>  and it always displays messages "Reading directory" for each
    Victor>  of my nnml folders.  I've checked that gnus-read-active-file
    Victor>  is set to its default value 'some, and that
    Victor>  gnus-check-new-newsgroups is set to its defualt value
    Victor>  'ask-server.  Also gnus-nov-is-evil is set to nil.  I've tried
    Victor>  regenerating the nov databases (.overview) for the nnml
    Victor>  directories, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.  Any
    Victor>  suggestions?  I'm running gnus 5.10.6.

    Victor>  Victor