From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42692 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorge Godoy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: db-backed mail back end Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:56:12 -0200 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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177899 13177 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:24:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20837 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2002 12:57:11 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2002 12:57:11 -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 16VBLD-0007kW-00; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:56:55 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:56:51 -0600 (CST) 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 GAA08420 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:56:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20830 invoked by alias); 28 Jan 2002 12:56:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20825 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2002 12:56:30 -0000 Original-Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br (200.250.58.156) by gnus.org with SMTP; 28 Jan 2002 12:56:30 -0000 Original-Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id BD7EA38CFC for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:56:16 -0300 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 20353 invoked by uid 0); 28 Jan 2001 12:56:27 -0000 Original-Received: from dagon.conectiva (10.0.2.67) by burns.conectiva with SMTP; 28 Jan 2001 12:56:27 -0000 Original-Received: by dagon.conectiva (Postfix, from userid 550) id 8E64723D77; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:56:13 -0200 (BRST) Original-To: Karl Kleinpaste X-URL: Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Disclaimer: Unless explicitly stated, opinions on this message are strictly mine In-Reply-To: (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:23:43 -0500") Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i386-conectiva-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42692 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42692 Karl Kleinpaste writes: > Yet you want to optimize the case that's so far out to the edge, I > doubt there's anyone that even actually _has_ a single group with 200K > messages in it, against which to test the planned optimization. (Does > anyone? Really, right now? Does anyone have a group, or does anyone > plan to create a group, that goes beyond, say, 30K messages?) You're > optimizing this bizarre, unusual, never-seen case, while the case that > I've run into at least a dozen times today alone haunts us, where > getting into a big, busy, NNTP group costs me minutes of computation > time while *Summary* is generated. I have groups bigger than 30K messages. The average size is 50K messages when I backup them (and other groups) to a CD. It takes 3 or 4 months to get back to that. See you, -- Godoy. Escritório de Projetos -- Conectiva S.A. Projects Office -- Conectiva Inc.