From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Scaleable mail repositories.
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:38:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051031183857.GD50312@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9fa83ab8997dae0d06b9c6bfd8b7c2b6@lsub.org>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:33:29PM +0100, Fco. J. Ballesteros wrote:
> : 5 seconds per 1000 seems a tad slow to me. But I'm picky. It still might
> : be worth it since you get all the tools. It's certainly faster than mh
> : ever was.
>
> Yep. I agree. I think that the problem is that you need something else
> (appart from grep) to search on big file trees. Any search tool that lets
> you lookup file paths by content would work with your mail as well.
> We have a home grown program that does that, but it does not work well
> enough and does not deserve distribution.
I know at least one person who uses glimpse for this.
Of course his glimpse index process tended to knock
over one of the Sparc cycle servers with some regularity.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-31 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-31 15:33 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-10-31 18:38 ` William Josephson [this message]
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2005-11-09 9:45 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-11-09 10:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-11-09 14:19 ` Sam
2005-11-10 1:24 ` erik quanstrom
2005-11-10 2:30 ` Russ Cox
2005-11-10 6:33 ` Scott Schwartz
2005-11-10 11:55 ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-31 15:19 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-10-31 15:14 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-10-31 16:22 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-31 18:37 ` William Josephson
2005-10-31 11:32 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-10-31 16:01 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-31 15:06 ` jmk
2005-10-30 1:10 [9fans] rfork(RFPROC) and ffork() geoff
2005-10-30 1:18 ` Paul Lalonde
2005-10-31 4:06 ` [9fans] Scaleable mail repositories Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-10-31 10:55 ` C H Forsyth
2005-10-31 12:32 ` erik quanstrom
2005-11-01 19:56 ` rog
2005-11-01 22:29 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-11-08 19:56 ` rog
2005-11-08 23:22 ` Joel Salomon
2005-11-09 0:51 ` Caerwyn Jones
2005-11-09 0:55 ` Russ Cox
2005-11-09 3:32 ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-31 15:30 ` jmk
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