Re: Gnus crawls when reading the active file for nntp

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Krishnakumar B <kitty@dre.vanderbilt.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Whenever I hit 'g' in the Group buffer to check for new mail/news, I get a
> message "Reading active file from news.vanderbilt.edu via nntp..." and it
> blocks for a while before showing the updated newsgroups. I have the
> following in my .gnus with respect to reading active files etc:
>
> (setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'ask-server
>       gnus-read-active-file     'some
>       gnus-select-method      '(nntp "news.vanderbilt.edu")
>       gnus-nov-is-evil                nil
>       gnus-auto-select-first  nil
>       gnus-interactive-exit   nil
>       gnus-interactive-catchup  nil
>       gnus-auto-select-same   t
>       gnus-auto-select-first    t
>       gnus-auto-select-next     t
>       gnus-auto-select-subject  t
>       gnus-use-article-prefetch t
>       gnus-large-newsgroup    500
>       gnus-suppress-duplicates  t)
>
> I read through the manual and seem to have the suggested setting for fast
> response when checking for new news. Is there something else that can be
> done to reduce the time that is spent blocking?
>
> For example, I read about 2 or 3 newsgroups, but I have about 50 or so mail
> groups. So I am more or less using Gnus as a mailreader. So I really don't
> need Gnus to check for news everytime I want to check for new mail, which
> is quite often.
>
> -kitty.

;; Set this to `nil', which will inhibit Gnus from requesting the
;; entire active file from the server.  This file is often v.
;; large.

(setq gnus-read-active-file nil)

HTH

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Michael

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