From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22211 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Slowness in viewing all articles in nnfolder Date: 01 Apr 1999 21:01:53 -0500 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 1035160172 26947 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:29:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:29:32 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09167 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:03:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAB01950; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:02:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Apr 1999 20:02:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23049 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:02:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09135 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:02:26 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine.mitre.org [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA08885 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:01:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from justin@localhost) by caffeine.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA03513; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:01:53 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 43 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22211 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22211 Danny Siu writes: > Has anyone noticed the slowness when trying to view all articles (C-u RET RET > in group buffer) in a nnfolder group? It took more than 5 mins for the > summary buffer to show up! My nnfolder file (12MB!) That is not very surprising. nnfolder is slow at generating summary buffers, particularly on files as huge as yours. > The reason I want to view all articles is that I like to view articles with > ancient mark along with all unread articles. I use del-mark ("r") for > articles I already read but want to keep around (they becomes ancient next > time I enter the group), tick ("!") mark for articles I need to reply, and > expirable mark ("E") for articles I want to get rid of. It sounds to me like you haven't really adjusted to The Gnus Way of reading your email. :-) Viewing all articles upon every group entry isn't really the way that most Gnus users seem to read their mail. Also, monolithic nnfolder or nnmbox groups get pretty unwieldy after a while. In any case, if you are really attached to that mode of operation, you should probably switch to a backend that will be faster at doing what you need, such as nnml. > I don't use auto-expiry since I need to keep all ancient articles. auto-expire does not remove ancient articles. It removes only articles marked as 'E', and adds this mark to each article that you read. > Is there a way to view ONLY unread, ticked, and ancient articles? What do you not want to see? ancient articles and read articles are essetially the same... -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.