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Re: Why has my gnus becomes so slow?


From: Andy Stewart
Subject: Re: Why has my gnus becomes so slow?
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:25:23 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

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

Hi.
Because gnus have to get news from server.
You can install leafnode to get news from news server.
So gnus is fast when it just one news reader. 

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

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

    Victor> Victor


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