From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51118 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Neumann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Questions on nnmaildir Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:23:04 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87llyvjyjb.fsf@papa-san.t-net.theredguy.de> References: <8765q0v6sk.fsf@papa-san.t-net.theredguy.de> <87isu0gvs2.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049127857 6379 80.91.224.249 (31 Mar 2003 16:24:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Mon Mar 31 18:24:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19024y-0001e0-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:24:13 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19024e-0008HB-00; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:23:52 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:24:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA13257 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:24:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 21242 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2003 16:23:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21237 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2003 16:23:34 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (213.165.65.60) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 31 Mar 2003 16:23:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27567 invoked by uid 65534); 31 Mar 2003 16:23:06 -0000 Original-Received: from pD95222E3.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO datenschleuder.t-net.theredguy.de) (217.82.34.227) by mail.gmx.net (mp009-rz3) with SMTP; 31 Mar 2003 18:23:06 +0200 Original-Received: from papa-san.t-net.theredguy.de ([192.168.42.54]) by datenschleuder.t-net.theredguy.de with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19023D-00063y-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:22:23 +0000 Original-Received: from thomas by papa-san.t-net.theredguy.de with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19023s-00009Y-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:23:04 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Shakespeare: "Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove." -- Sonnet 141 In-Reply-To: <87isu0gvs2.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> (Josh Huber's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:38:37 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i386-debian-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51118 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51118 Josh Huber writes: > Thomas Neumann writes: > >> But that's not the reason, why I write this mail. It seems that >> nnmaildir is quite an inode-hogger. > They're hardlinks. Hmm. Output of `df -i` 1) /dev/hda5 611648 61281 550367 11% /home 2) /dev/hda5 611648 61297 550351 11% /home 3) /dev/hda5 611648 61302 550346 11% /home 4) /dev/hda5 611648 61419 550229 11% /home 5) /dev/hda5 611648 61548 550100 11% /home 1) nothing done so far 2) B c message to new maildir group.test, which did not exist so far 3) B c different message to maildir group.test 4) C-u 50 # B c nnmaildir+thomas:group.Inbox (group.Inbox didn't exist before) 5) Copy 50 other mails to group.Inbox Seems like I have about 250K mails left before I run out of Inodes on /home. Which is not as bad as it looked first, but still less then I expected. Is it really that much faster for nnmaildir to pick a specific nov-file and grab its contents then to search through a single file containing all novs and look for a match? [Or what's the reason behind doing it this way?] tsch=FC=DF thomas