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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: is nnmaildir very slow?
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 22:02:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhnm5d0l.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m35zqae2cr.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org>

On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 13:27, James Cloos wrote:
> I don't know whether it still does, but it used to scan through the
> groups three times every time I started.
>
> Which took *horribly* long back on that laptop's ide drive and shared
> ram/io bus.
>
> On top of that bug, part of the issue is using the filesystem as a
> database.  Anything using that style of storage suffers a superlinear
> delay as the size grows.
>
> I'd start by watching emacs with something like strace -e open to see
> whether it still loops through all of the groups multiple times.
>
> That bug still requires a fix if so.

Thanks.  I'll investigate further.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.2.3 on Debian buster/sid




  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-16  5:32 Eric S Fraga
2019-05-16 15:04 ` George Clemmer
2019-05-16 21:00   ` Eric S Fraga
2019-05-16 16:22 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-05-16 21:01   ` Eric S Fraga
2019-05-16 21:29     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-05-17  6:02       ` Eric S Fraga
2019-05-18 10:53         ` George Clemmer
2019-05-19  9:20           ` Eric S Fraga
2019-05-20  9:53           ` Eric S Fraga
2019-05-24 21:26             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-05-25  9:23               ` Eric S Fraga
2019-05-16 17:27 ` James Cloos
2019-05-16 21:02   ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2019-05-16 21:40   ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-17 17:46     ` James Cloos

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