From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: slow checking for new mail
Date: 08 Sep 1997 12:47:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27mcsw09c.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of 08 Sep 1997 03:14:32 -0400
Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com> writes:
> People not using POP wouldn't notice, because it would translate to
> (maybe) one movemail invocation, and 99 stat calls that find that the
> incoming mail file is zero length; since there's no mail to fetch,
> movemail isn't run after the first time. That optimization can't be
> done in the POP case, because you can't see into the mail spool. If
> that optimization were removed, I bet everyone would notice "<number>
> g" being slow.
nnmail keeps track of what mailboxen it has tried to move in each
"pass", so you won't see this behavior in Gnus 5.4.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-08 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-06 12:59 stephen farrell
1997-09-07 3:46 ` Mark Eichin
1997-09-08 7:14 ` Ken Raeburn
1997-09-08 10:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-09-08 14:07 ` David Kågedal
1997-09-08 10:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-09-08 15:05 ` Colin Rafferty
1997-09-08 18:41 ` stephen farrell
1997-09-08 18:27 ` stephen farrell
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