From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39353 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting new mail really slow with nnml marks Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:16:39 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175072 27411 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:37:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23137 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2001 16:09:26 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 2001 16:09:25 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15ttFS-0000Fg-00; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:08:50 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:08:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA05997 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:08:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 23126 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2001 16:08:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23121 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2001 16:08:24 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lie.extundo.com) (195.42.214.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Oct 2001 16:08:24 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jas@localhost) by lie.extundo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9HGGdC21477; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:16:39 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lie.extundo.com: jas owned process doing -bs Original-To: David Z Maze In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39353 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39353 On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, David Z Maze wrote: > Since the nnml not-in-newsrc.eld mark code got added, sucking in new > mail has been really slow for me. Setting (setq gnus-verbose-backends > 10) and pressing 'g' from the group buffer reveals that Gnus is > reading, updating, and writing the mark files for every single group, > regardless of whether or not it has new mail. This is probably even > slower in my case, since (a) my mail is on a networked filesystem, (b) > I'm using XEmacs, and (c) I appear to have 637 nnml groups. Is it > possible to cut down the "update marks" phase to only update the mark > files for groups where there actually is new mail? Since 2001-09-08 this is precisely what should be happening. Have you checked out since then? If so, could you quote the exact messages from the backend? Could you also do a `stat ~/Mail/somennmlgroup/.marks' to see if perhaps there is something weird with the modtime field? (I guess some network filesystems could skip that field. What fs are you using?)