From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76599 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Reading old news Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:50:42 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87tyg9ii99.fsf@dod.no> References: <87y65lpmlk.fsf@savara.sat.thregr.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297511465 3697 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2011 11:51:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:51:05 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24943@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Feb 12 12:51:02 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PoE0C-0007Gn-M5 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:51:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PoE0A-0004eC-1k; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:50:58 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PoE08-0004dq-Jj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:50:56 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PoE07-0003kx-GZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:50:56 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PoE06-0005gA-Ni for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:50:54 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PoE06-0007B4-0w for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:50:54 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.226.192.getinternet.no ([84.208.226.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:50:54 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.226.192.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:50:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.226.192.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gDezWfe8I7UzOdfr1My4QCpNpGI= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76599 Archived-At: >>>>> Yuri D'Elia : > Can I get the last week worth of articles from a group directly? nnir > on large groups is slow if all I need is a search in the last ~500 > articles. Right now to do that I simply enter an existing group, > enter a large (but random) number of articles to read, then limit. nnir speed is dependent on the search efficiency of the IMAP server, so the best way to get a speedup would be to get improved indexing on the server (if possible). What IMAP server do you use? If you're using dovecot I would personally be interested in any speedups you could achieve (too lazy to do the research myself...;-) ).