Re: "Updating marks" spam -- how do I kill it?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org> writes:

>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
> Jack> Every time I hit 'g', I get a line of "Updating marks" for each
> Jack> nnml group I have.  This is remarkably annoying and inefficient.
> Jack> Annoying because it takes time and wastes bandwidth.
>
> Simon> I changed the verbosity level to 8.
>
> Tell me how to make it go away?

It should be gone now, in CVS.

If you want to make the marks stuff go away completely, you can use
the `nnml-marks-is-evil' or `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' server variables.

> Jack> Inefficient because it traverses every single group instead of
> Jack> only the ones that were modified by the 'g'.
>
> Simon> The updating of marks isn't in the Gnus -> nnml direction, but
> Simon> rather the other way around.  So all groups that are checked
> Simon> for new mail have their marks updated (if necessary) as well.
>
> There has *got* to be a better way.

Yes: Only updating the marks if the file was modified since it checked
last time.  Making it so is in the pipe.  Is the current way causing
any problems other than inefficiency?  Soon all the extra work the
marks stuff require is an extra stat() to see if the marks file
changed or not, that shouldn't be too heavy compared to other things,
I hope.