From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12005 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: stephen farrell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: slow checking for new mail Date: 08 Sep 1997 13:27:05 -0500 Message-ID: <87sovfek5i.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> References: <87rab2bntu.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.89) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151619 1314 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:06:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:06:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gnus list Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA28018 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 12:34:44 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA03009 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:30:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:27:13 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 13337 invoked by uid 504); 8 Sep 1997 18:27:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13331 invoked from network); 8 Sep 1997 18:27:10 -0000 Original-Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (128.135.21.31) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 8 Sep 1997 18:27:09 -0000 Original-Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA08959; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 13:27:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20834; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 13:27:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "08 Sep 1997 12:48:24 +0200" Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.64/XEmacs 19.15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12005 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12005 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > stephen farrell writes: > > > Ok... so I wrote a bit about this before--it's really really slow for > > me to check for new mail. I have about 80 nnml groups, nfs mounted, > > which are priority 1. when i punch 1 g, it takes about 10-15 seconds > > to incorperate new mail (even if only 1 new email). > > If you have lots of level 1 nnml groups, `1 g' will be slow. nnml > checks each group seperately in these cases. nah--it's _really_ checking the nnmh groups (either that or checking nnmh groups with thousands of files in them takes no time, which I consider highly unlikely). The key point is that it takes just as long to check "1 g" as it does to check "g", where "g" gets a couple of dozen nntp groups, a couple of dozen nnmh groups (with thousands of entries), and ~ 50-100 nnml groups. Gnus v5.4.64; nntp 5.0; nnml 1.0; nnmh 1.0 -- Steve Farrell