From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28449 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: has "incorporating new mail" bug been fixed yet? Date: 23 Dec 1999 22:15:12 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87iu1p1oyx.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165295 29918 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:54:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:54:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96F0D0529 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 01:22:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAB21484; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 00:18:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 24 Dec 1999 00:17:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA15248 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 00:16:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from halfdome.holdit.com (halfdome.holdit.com [209.102.105.64]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D443DD0529 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 01:15:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from merlyn@localhost) by halfdome.holdit.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA15150; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 22:15:12 -0800 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List In-Reply-To: dsg@mitre.org's message of "23 Dec 1999 15:39:21 -0500" Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28449 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28449 >>>>> "David" == David S Goldberg writes: David> As you note, the problem is due to using a directory source, but it's David> not the case that the existence of 50-some .spool files causes the David> problem. The problem is that you've got 50-some nnml groups at levels David> 1 and 2 and the directory is being searched for a file for each one, David> whether or not such a file exists. This is apparently (to me, based David> on the explanation I only vaguely recall from Simon) due to nnml not David> having a particular feature in the nnml-request-scan function. I've David> tried to look at what Simon did with nnimap-request-scan, but I just David> plain don't get the code. This is, in my opinion, a side effect of David> the design of mail-source versus the old procmail specific code. I am David> quite certain that Lars is aware of this, I'm not so certain he David> considers it a bug. Well, when qgnus issues only one message, but pgnus issues hundreds of messages, I can't see how that would not be considered a "bug" or at least a degradation in performance. I know, "patches welcome". Maybe I'll have to dust off my elisp reading skills. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!