From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42640 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raja R Harinath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: db-backed mail back end Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:29:05 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2nbsfitmtx.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177856 12929 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:24:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:24:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 21507 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 01:29:50 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 01:29:50 -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 16Ue8O-0007jX-00; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:29:28 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:29:22 -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 TAA00211 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:29:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 21501 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2002 01:29:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21496 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 01:29:08 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu (128.101.36.200) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 01:29:08 -0000 Original-Received: from bose.cs.umn.edu (postfix@bose.cs.umn.edu [128.101.35.195]) by mail.cs.umn.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0R1T6Y16741 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:29:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by bose.cs.umn.edu (Postfix, from userid 818) id ED4B53230; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:29:05 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:03:50 +0100") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42640 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42640 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> Setting `gnus-verbose' to 1 makes Gnus feel much snappier. :-) Must >> be a psychological thing. > > I noticed that selection of the first message in a big group took > quite a while (half a second), while subsequent selections took only a > fraction of that, and I hunted that down to the code that allows using > compressed messages. I think that's quite obscure functionality, and > it makes no sense punishing normal users, so I've now disabled that > unless you set `nnml-use-compressed-files'. Isn't that functionality already present in 'nnml-filenames-are-evil'? - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash