From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Pmail slow on 4-meg message Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:32:15 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232570075 31029 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2009 20:34:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:34:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 21 21:35:48 2009 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 1LPjnf-0001rQ-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:35:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52056 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPjmO-0004zj-Jc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPjlj-0004Sa-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPjli-0004Rd-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46529 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPjli-0004RW-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:44243) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPjli-00016b-55 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LPjkF-0002SM-DR; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:32:15 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:108048 Archived-At: I have a 4-meg message in my PMAIL file. Displaying it in Pmail takes around 12 seconds. When I move to such a message, unless I have seen this problem in the past hour, my first thought is that Emacs is hung. I tend to type C-g, which can cause worse trouble. I think pmail-show-message needs to display something in the echo area saying "displaying message N" while showing a message above some specified size, perhaps defaulting to 200k. What do people think? The worst pain is if I type n n and the first n goes to such a message. It suggests to me that pmail-show-message should process the message 100k at a time, in a pre-emptable loop.