From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24247 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Pick Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mail fetching on memory-poor machines Date: 14 Jul 1999 14:31:35 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87673mapfs.fsf@pepper.jimpick.com> References: <87hfn7stjr.fsf@pepper.jimpick.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161846 7688 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:57:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding)" Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10657 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:36:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB06542; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:32:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:33:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA22629 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:33:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from tia.jimpick.com (tia.jimpick.com [204.209.212.111]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10576 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:32:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from (pepper.jimpick.com) [204.209.212.121] by tia.jimpick.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 114Wd5-0000g4-00 (Debian); Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:31:53 -0700 Original-Received: from jim by pepper.jimpick.com with local (Exim 3.02 #1 (Debian)) id 114Wcp-0002SH-00; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:31:35 -0700 Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat X-Url: http://www.jimpick.com/ In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "14 Jul 1999 15:02:42 -0400" Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24247 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24247 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > * Jim Pick on Wed, 14 Jul 1999 > | I'm using an nnfolder backend. > > Don't use nnfolder. Use nnml instead. Bzzt. Wrong answer. I like nnfolder. I'm not going to waste that many inodes. It takes forever to back it up using rsync. I know, I've been using nnml for the past year, and just recently switched to nnfolder. My patch fixes the problem for me. Spectacularily. I presented it to the list so that others might benefit. Why not fix the problem? The results of the problem are so bad that it's basically a bug. Fixing it seems like a more logical thing to do, rather than force everybody to use the program in a certain way. (granted, my fix might not be optimal - if I got some feedback on what was wrong or right with the approach, I might develop a patch suitable for inclusion) Cheers, - Jim