Re: wanderlust is sooo slooowww...

[Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net>]

At Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:12:45 +0100,
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> > Been using Wanderlust for a couple years now.  Worked great up until a
> > few months back whereupon searching folders became just plain borked
> > and checking imap folders dog slow (e.g. 2-3 secs vs. 12-15 secs).
> 
> Both of these operations are implemented as server-side searches:
> Wanderlust merely sends a search command to the server, and the server
> does all of the real work.  If searching has become slow, that has most
> probably nothing to do with Wanderlust, it's your server being overloaded.

The server is barely loaded, much less overloaded.

> > Until recently (emacs 24.4) wanderlust-20140210-1 worked while anything
> > wanderlust-20140515-1 and later exhibited problems cited above.
> 
> Can you confirm that downgrading to 20140210-1 fixes your issues?
> I suspect the server got slower as it becomes overloaded, and that this
> merely coincided with you upgrading Wanderlust.

Yes, downgrading used to fix the problem for all of the interim arch
releases between the two cited.  With the latest Emacs update, I can
no longer use 20140210-1 and still have it respect themes.  Search
does work and it's not dog slow though.

> > Would prefer to stick with Wanderlust but need some help in debugging
> > this, as I'm not a e/lisp guy.
> 
> If you cannot switch to a faster server, you'll need a mail client that
> performs searches client-side.  There's just no way around it.

This is a highly likely a Wanderlust issue.

Best-- Ken