>>>>> "Lance" == Lance A Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lance> Hi, I am experiencing problems with BBDB taking --forever--
Lance> to format the *BBDB* buffer when I do M-x bbdb RET RET.
Lance> I've let it run for minutes and it still sits there with the
Lance> formatting..... message in the minibuffer.
Lance> I have also seen this bahavior when I do a C-c C-l in the
Lance> GNUS Newsgroup buffer to look at the killed newsgroups list.
Lance> I let that run for 10 minutes once and finally had it come
Lance> back with the full list of killed groups.
these are both compute-intensive chores.
how big is your ~/.bbdb file?
send the output of `ls -l ~/.bbdb` to the list.
matt liggett '59 Austin Mini 850 (If only it ran...)
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