From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76610 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri D'Elia Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Reading old news Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:05:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87tyg9oyyh.fsf@savara.sat.thregr.org> References: <87y65lpmlk.fsf@savara.sat.thregr.org> <87tyg9ii99.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297537589 27552 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2011 19:06:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:06:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24953@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Feb 12 20:06:24 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 1PoKnX-0007Fe-Dp for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:06:23 +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 1PoKnD-0006aH-2y; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:06:03 -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 1PoKnB-0006Zz-Nc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:06:01 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PoKnA-0004sq-37 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:06:01 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PoKn7-0004BH-Un for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:05:57 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PoKn5-00070U-AD for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:05:55 +0100 Original-Received: from 88-149-140-188.dynamic.ngi.it ([88.149.140.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:05:55 +0100 Original-Received: from wavexx by 88-149-140-188.dynamic.ngi.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:05:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88-149-140-188.dynamic.ngi.it User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G9L4cG6RFSsd+4qmNss3NN3b0hQ= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76610 Archived-At: On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:50:42 +0100, Steinar Bang wrote: >> 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...;-) ). I'm using dovecor allright, though I'm not really interested in speeding up nnir (which, by the way, is faster than sylpheed mail search anyway), I'm looking for better ways to read an old group.