From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multi-threaded Emacs Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:39:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87abbiody1.fsf@master.homenet> <877i6l5d8s.fsf@master.homenet> <874p1npvtj.fsf@master.homenet> <87ej0qci8g.fsf@master.homenet> <87y6yxm7xr.fsf@master.homenet> <87oczroysm.fsf@master.homenet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228491613 9821 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2008 15:40:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 16:41:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L8cne-0007KL-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:41:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8cmU-0008Fb-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:39:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8cmO-0008Ei-RB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:39:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8cmO-0008Di-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:39:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41151 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8cmN-0008DO-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:39:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:48475) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L8cmN-00058l-Kv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:39:43 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvoEAGrZOEnO+Jkl/2dsb2JhbACBbc16gwWBJg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,721,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="30695658" Original-Received: from 206-248-153-37.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.153.37]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 05 Dec 2008 10:39:42 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8A4D184A9; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:39:42 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Helmut Eller's message of "Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:02:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106612 Archived-At: > I'm wondering what the exact problem with Gnus is. Nothing in particular. Gnus is already doing a fair bit of effort to run asynchronously. But, e.g. refreshing the *Group* buffer can take a long time (especially if you use IMAP) and during this time, your Emacs can't be used, even though it's not necessarily using all of your CPU. Similarly when downloading a large article (with say some movie attached). For those reasons I always have at least 2 Emacs processes running: one for Gnus and one for pretty much everything else. Stefan