From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88571 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: is nnmaildir very slow? Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 22:02:18 +0100 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <87zhnm5d0l.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87v9yb6k1z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="199596"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36774@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 16 23:05:19 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hRNZ0-000pmg-8a for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 May 2019 23:05:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hRNYw-0000Un-7c; Thu, 16 May 2019 16:05:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hRNYr-0000Rx-BA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 May 2019 16:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hRNYq-0001Eq-48 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 May 2019 16:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hRNYm-0002bD-TY for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 May 2019 23:05:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hRNYk-000pYR-KW for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 May 2019 23:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:/A++weMnllq56FsRpbave7uKZug= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88571 Archived-At: 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