From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3992 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Edmonds Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: External delivery: Pros and cons Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 07:38:25 -0800 Message-ID: <199511151538.HAA00082@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144803 28194 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:13:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:13:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu 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 RAA25602 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:58:29 -0800 Original-Received: from grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (grolsch-2.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.5.5]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 02:10:43 +0100 Original-Received: from edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca (edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca [198.162.38.73]) by grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA06599; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:09:35 -0800 Original-Received: by edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca (Sendmail 8.6.12) id HAA00082; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 07:38:25 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-reply-to: (message from Sudish Joseph on 15 Nov 1995 03:01:39 -0500) Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3992 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3992 > Date: 15 Nov 1995 03:01:39 -0500 > > Cons: One con you forgot that used to bother me a lot: when you filter incoming messages, you end up with one (potentially large: perl) process per message. If you're on a system like mine where I retrieve mail via UUCP once per hour, all those processes starting up at once can put a serious strain on the system. I have blown out my virtual space once in the past when I was only running with 20M. I find splitting the mail inside emacs is pretty quick, unless you've got hundreds of messages, and far kinder on my hard drive and system performance. As it is, just punting everything through sendmail at once produces a noticable lag. Brian. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds