On 11/09/2009 06:10 AM, Andrea Govoni wrote: > on 09/11/09 05:08 NoOp said the following: >> >> On 11/08/2009 07:10 PM, Kent Briggs wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, that's nothing. The delays show up when you got multiple groups >>> with 50,000 or more posts in them. >> >> You may have missed this from my previous post: >> gmane.linux.ubuntu.user - 200054 (goes back to 2004) >> That is: >> 200,054 >> and is 4 times your 50,000 posts. >> >> Scroll up to the top to the group, click & instantaneously get: >> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.ubuntu.user >> Subject: Re: D-Link Airplus DWL-G650+ > > I think you're misunderstanding Kent's complaint. > The big delay and high CPU activity that Kent is referring to is when > newsgroups with many thousands of messages already downloaded are > checked for new messages. It's not when a message is displayed or when > SM2.0 downloads the number of headers you want the *first* time that a > newsgroup is checked.
I think I do understand his complaint. I just installed a fresh SM 2.0 on one of my test systems[1] and added news.gmane.org. I then subscribed to two newsgroups: 1. gmane.linux.ubuntu.user 200394 new message headers... 2. gmane.linux.emulators.virtualbox.general 7525 new message headers to download... For both groups I can: 1) elect to download 500 headers (default), 2) change from 500 to some other number, 1000 for instance, or 3) Download all headers. Obviously if I elect to download all headers from either one it will take me some time to do so. So I pick #1 above and elect to download all 200,394 headers. I start at 4:30 PM PDT & watch as the downlod progresses. news.gmane.org is cooperating today, so it seems to be going along smoothly... 4:35 PM and I am at 130501 headers... 4:37 and I seem to be hanging on header 200013 - that may be an issue with the server or the msg itself. Nope, just some fool they let post a pdf. 4:39 all 200396 (two more were added in the process) are there. I click on one from 17 Sep 2004 & it loads just fine. I then close & restart SeaMonkey 2.0 and access the same gmane.linux.ubuntu.user immediately after startup. I time it using a clock display (w/seconds) on the other computer (click on the newsgroup): takes ~15 seconds. I then modify news.update_unread_on_expand and set to false & repeat the above (including restart). Time to open the newsgroup: ~15 seconds. Keep in mind, the specs of the memory of the machine (see [1] below), I'll load up 1.1.18 and repeat later tonight or tomorrow on the same low memory machine. [1] The test system is a 1.8Ghz/245Mb running Ubuntu linux 9.10 with a 1.5Mb DSL link. I've made _no_ modifications to SeaMonkey other than basic setup. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
