From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3982 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus5, procmail, and reading mail lists. Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:32:01 +0100 Message-ID: <199511151432.PAA20711@ssv4.dina.kvl.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144794 28161 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:13:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hildjj@fuentez.com, ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA21721 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 08:03:50 -0800 Original-Received: from elc1.dina.kvl.dk (elc1.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.228]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:35:05 +0100 Original-Received: from ssv4.dina.kvl.dk (ssv4.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.223]) by elc1.dina.kvl.dk (8.6.12/8.6.4) with ESMTP id PAA06321; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:30:38 +0100 Original-Received: (abraham@localhost) by ssv4.dina.kvl.dk (8.6.12/8.6.4) id PAA20711; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:32:01 +0100 Original-To: Sudish Joseph In-reply-to: Sudish Joseph's message of 14 Nov 1995 23:37:13 -0500 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3982 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3982 The speed of Gnus mail splitting with nnml/nnmh is almost solely depending on what file system you use. I have used Gnus mail splitting with three different file systems: NFS: Incredible slow. You can read each split message in the minibuffer several times, take a sip of your tea, and speculate about the possible content before the next message arrives. Linux ext2fs: Incredible fast. You can see some flimmer in the message area, but haven't a chance to see what they are about. I get the impression that the speed of mail splitting on Linux is limited by how fast it can print those messages on the screen. BSD-FFS: Somewhere in between. You can read the messages if you stay alert. The reason is probably that NFS is write through, and that BSD-FFS directory content is write through, while Linux ext2fs buffers everything. Conclusions: 1. LINUX R00LZ! (but set nnmail-delete-incoming to nil, just in case...) 2. There is really nothing Lars can do to speed up mail splitting. 3. Using procmail to split mail instead of Gnus doesn't speed up anything, unless you deliver directly into the folders instead spool files. 4. If you don't run Linux, consider using nnfolder instead of nnml. 5. Consider reading mail on the NFS server instead of a client. 6. Consider buying PrestoServe(TM) for your NFS server.