On 11/08/2009 01:40 PM, Kent Briggs wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > > >> Or are you saying that it no longer offers the option of downloading the >> full set? > > No, you need to read up in the thread, starting with the first post. The > problem is the speed at which SM 2.0 opens a news server and bolds the > groups with new messages. It's dog slow (like up to 1 minute for 13 > groups) if the groups have tens of thousands of (already read) posts in > them. It was not slow in 1.1.18 and previous versions.
I had issues with large newsgroups proviously (after switching to 2.x - many early test versions), but lately things seem to have settled down. Regarding large newsgroups, I use gmane.org for lists & following are some samples of the amount of headers I have: gmane.comp.openoffice.releases - 6252 (goes back to 2005) gmane.comp.openoffice.questions - 17946 (haven't bother to load all) gmane.linux.ubuntu.user - 200054 (goes back to 2004) etc., etc., etc, for well over 30 newsgroups on news.gmane.org Since changing to news.update_unread_on_expand;false I'm fairly happy with the 2.0 performance when compared to 1.1.18 (I run them in parallel - so it's easy to compare). Keep in mind that sometimes the news server itself may be the issue. Run both 1.1.18 and 2.0 in parallel to check. Perhaps the issue is that your newsgroup files are attempting to download _all_ headers from each group rather than the most recent 500/1000 whatever. Maybe check on your 1.1.18 & see how many headers it has for a particular group & compare? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
