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From: David Wuertele <dave-gnus@bfnet.com>
Subject: nnmaildir takes progressively longer to exit group
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:45:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m36534xx3v.fsf@bfnet.com> (raw)

When I didn't have much mail, nnmaildir was a great solution.  Now
that I have tens of thousands of messages, nnmaildir takes as long as
5 MINUTES to exit a group.  It is getting unusable and frustrating.

I keep my mail on a USB-2 drive formatted reiserfs.  When the USB-2
drive is connected (and only when connected), fetchmail automatically
gets mail and delivers it to multiple maildirs on that drive.  My
.gnus file says:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnmaildir "" (directory "~/mail/maildirs")
                                        (create-directory ".")))
(setq gnus-use-cache t
      gnus-cacheable-groups ".*" 
      gnus-uncacheable-groups "\\`nnmaildir[:+]")

I have noticed that when leaving the group "dave-gnus@bfnet.com",
EVERY ONE OF THE 14843 MARK FILES in

  ~/mail/maildirs/dave-gnus@bfnet.com/.nnmaildir/marks/read/*

gets modified.  Is that normal!?!

Is there anything I can do to speed up nnmaildir performance?

I have looked into dovecot, but I wasn't able to figure out how to
teach it about my existing maildir structure.

Thanks,
Dave




             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-14 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-14 23:45 David Wuertele [this message]
2004-12-16 14:17 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-12-16 17:42 ` Paul Jarc

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