From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus is just slow when dealing with more than 5000 articles Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:54:49 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net 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 1238946065 12968 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2009 15:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:41:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 05 17:42:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LqUU5-0001Vv-PK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:42:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39245 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqUSh-0003UJ-GZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:40:43 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+lwdi6bWHqXNhstD8jfzFzGHmyRSTwkm/+9ByBN02gZdKXIu0KtHwtEylJzY164p4sECu5DLdcQFYVyds4tXMnnhVRU7BADP1yWsyGIYSF60fn02GzrSLrz4RxTIBLR2I= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:54:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18ahpGd44ZjHGIk+hy3yw/qvR8291spX2nl25uneZz7hg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:D2DKjCVS8ymiHwHSh3Hg1FKjwLg= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168213 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63496 Archived-At: Leo writes: > On 2009-04-05 13:40 +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: >> hello, >> >> Does anybody know some gnus tricks to make it faster when dealing with a >> group with a lot of articles ? >> >> The time to fetch headers from the news server is ok but the time to >> summarise the buffer is way too long. The same when trying to filter the >> summary buffer. >> >> Thunderbird deals with 17000 articles and all operations (searching, >> sorting in threaded view...) is almost instantaneous. > > It might be a bug. Make a reproducible recipe and report it to its > developers. Easy : open a group with a few hundred articles. It takes an appreciable amount of time. I never thought of it as a bug though - merely an elisp overhead combined with formatting overheads. > >> >> thanks --