From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25193 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hannu Koivisto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: overview file access when spooling and nnml/nnimap performance Date: 22 Sep 1999 18:58:28 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87aeqfuee3.fsf@senstation.vvf.fi> References: <877lljawft.fsf@senstation.vvf.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162624 12734 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:10:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA02844 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:01:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB14131; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:00:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:01:09 -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 LAA29425 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:01:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from senstation.vvf.fi (senstation.vvf.fi [195.74.10.211]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02785 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:58:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from azure by senstation.vvf.fi with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 11Tomq-0001Sm-00; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:58:28 +0300 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "22 Sep 1999 16:54:29 +0200" Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25193 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25193 Simon Josefsson writes: | If you want numbers, entering a large group (~1000 articles) with | nnimap spend 20 % of the time in nnimap and 80 % in Gnus. For nnml | theese numbers are 1 % / 99 %. | | This indicate that if you want better performance, you should spend | your time optimizing Gnus instead of working on a backend. The Hm, right, thanks for the numbers. However, perhaps I was a bit unclear but I never meant that backend would improve group access at least dramatically; I do agree with you that it's Gnus' problem (I think I said it was Elisp's problem, but Gnus _and_ Elisp is actually what I was thinking). The primary reason why I was thinking about backend was the spooling phase. That's the primary problem I'm seeing now -- it has slowed down a lot while my folders have grown larger and I don't think Gnus needs to do anything that would prevent scaling in this case. Perhaps I'm wrong, but this is what I'm trying to find out. -- Hannu