[OS X Emacs] Re: Gnus is unbearably slow in Aquamacs -- is this just me?

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer]

Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <kun041 <at> student.uib.no> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried starting up Gnus today in Aquamacs, but it took over a minute for my 
> Group buffer to show -- even without having any subscriptions! I created a 
> timer using 
...
> 
> And on subscribing and restarting Gnus a couple of times, I once got an "out 
of 
> memory" error, and Aquamacs generally turns extremely unresponsive after 
> starting Gnus.
> 
> Does anyone else have this problem? I'm using aquamacs-version 1.2, gnus-
> version 5.11.

Using elp gives better results. This is with some subscriptions:

Function Name               Call Count  Elapsed Time  Average Time
=========================== ==========  ============  ============
gnus-1                      1           124.502581    124.502581
gnus-open-server            8           120.63093100  15.078866375
gnus-start-news-server      1           75.403271     75.403271
gnus-setup-news             1           48.527885     48.527885
gnus-get-unread-articles    1           47.849007     47.849007
gnus-activate-group         34          47.740487     1.4041319705
gnus-read-active-file       1           0.570233      0.570233
gnus-server-opened          44          0.436155      0.0099126136
gnus-read-active-file-1     3           0.390021      0.130007
gnus-read-active-file-2     1           0.302127      0.302127
gnus-retrieve-groups        1           0.301841      0.301841

And this is with all groups unsubscribed:
Function Name              Call Count  Elapsed Time  Average Time
========================== ==========  ============  ============
gnus-1                     1           76.457251     76.457251
gnus-open-server           5           75.226657     15.0453314
gnus-start-news-server     1           75.2252       75.2252
gnus-setup-news            1           0.957811      0.957811
gnus-yes-or-no-p           1           0.915424      0.915424
gnus-read-active-file      1           0.73282       0.73282
gnus-read-active-file-1    3           0.7284299999  0.2428099999
gnus-read-active-file-2    1           0.482596      0.482596
gnus-retrieve-groups       1           0.4822999999  0.4822999999
gnus-message               29          0.4293110000  0.0148038275
gnus-check-server          9           0.1546560000  0.017184

So, gnus-open-server still gets called 5 times, taking about 15 seconds each 
time. This happens consistently, on the first Gnus start or on later restarts, 
and on all the newsservers I've tried (my linux box does fine though).