From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53595 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: expiry-target with nnimap destination slowdown Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:14:15 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059614691 12362 80.91.224.249 (31 Jul 2003 01:24:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:24:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2139@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 31 03:24:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19i2BV-0003DD-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:24:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19i2B4-0005k9-00; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19i2Az-0005k4-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 78670 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2003 01:24:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 78665 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2003 01:24:17 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2003 01:24:17 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6V1OFgW026907 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:24:15 +0200 Original-To: Nicolas Kowalski Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030731:Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr:68b26b3a08458d66 X-Hashcash: 0:030731:Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr:68b26b3a08458d66 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030731:ding@gnus.org:6aa35e5107d4df8c X-Hashcash: 0:030731:ding@gnus.org:6aa35e5107d4df8c In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Kowalski's message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:27:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53595 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53595 Nicolas Kowalski writes: > Hello. > > I use nnimap as a secondary mail method. The nnimap:mail/* groups are > expired in nnimap:old/* groups. One of this nnimap:old/* group is > going huge (~5000 messages), so I now I can notice a serious slowdown > when the expiration process runs. > > For example, I see in the *imap-log* buffer that the nnimap backend > store "\\Seen" on all messages of the nnimap:old/verimag group, and > this for each article expired in nnimap:mail/verimag. > > The imap-log corresponding to the expiration of /only/ one article can > be downloaded here (~170k) : > > http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~kowalski/imap.log > > Any tips for speeding it up ? The imap.log file doesn't seem to be available now, but maybe you could rename the group old/foo to old/foo2 and create a new old/foo? If this happens often, maybe using a old/foo-YYYY-MM or similar scheme could help.