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>>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@dusty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

KG> it seems that moving the nnmail-spool-directory and the nnml-directory
KG> to a local disk (or CacheFS?) would make a lot of sense to speed up
KG> splitting.  

I couldn't find `nnmail-spool-directory'.

I don't know the time properties of CacheFS, so I can't comment on
that.  

KG> Does it make sense to move the spool directory only?  

Assuming you mean `nnmail-spool-file', no.  Reading from NFS is quite
fast unless the server or net is overloaded, it is writing that is
slow, especially creating a lot of small files (which is what nnml
does).

KG> Does it make sense to move the nnml directory only?

Yes.

KG> Also, is the speed of entering an nnml group affected by the same
KG> effect?

No.  Gnus entirely to blame for that delay, except in pathological
cases.