From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48654 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Concerning marks and the back end. Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:57:52 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86fzsc4ii2.fsf@asfast.com> <84k7hnjxqi.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <86y9638l7i.fsf@asfast.com> <86ptrfc6oy.fsf@asfast.com> <86hecrc56e.fsf@asfast.com> <86el7vc4xw.fsf@asfast.com> <8665t6de1c.fsf@asfast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041605885 3667 80.91.224.249 (3 Jan 2003 14:58:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 14:58:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org 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 18UTGs-0000wo-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:58:03 +0100 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 18UTH5-0000qk-00; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:58:15 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:59:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA28220 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 08:58:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 57350 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2003 14:57:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 57345 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2003 14:57:57 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 3 Jan 2003 14:57:57 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h03EvqRr029374 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:57:53 +0100 Original-To: Lloyd Zusman Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030103:ljz@asfast.com:bafcc399c17c087f X-Hashcash: 0:030103:ljz@asfast.com:bafcc399c17c087f X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030103:ding@gnus.org:a4d2309b6465ff38 X-Hashcash: 0:030103:ding@gnus.org:a4d2309b6465ff38 In-Reply-To: <8665t6de1c.fsf@asfast.com> (Lloyd Zusman's message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:59:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48654 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48654 Lloyd Zusman writes: >> But I still wonder why entering the group is slow for you. I have >> 15,000 messages in my ding mailing list mailbox, which is stored on a >> IMAP server, and entering it and viewing the unread and ticked >> articles takes no time. When I get several hundred thousand articles >> it becomes a little slow though (long coffe break). > > Well, I still will do the profiling that you suggested earlier. > > I wonder if in my case things would be slower than for you because ... > > 1. I'm having this problem in nnml and nnspool groups, and not nnimap, > which I'm not using these days. Nnimap is rather inefficient and should be slower than nnml/nnspool on local filesystems. > 2. I have a custom summary line format string that makes use of a > couple of custom format functions that I wrote ... this will > probably turn out to be the culprit. Yes, this sounds plausible. Asynchronous buffer generation would be nice ..