From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59429 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wuertele Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: nnmaildir takes progressively longer to exit group Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:45:40 -0800 Organization: Berkeley Fluent Network Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103129135 3981 80.91.229.6 (15 Dec 2004 16:45:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:45:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7969@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 15 17:45:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CecH1-00045w-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:45:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Cec6h-0000Xm-00; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:34:31 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CeMMg-0007jo-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:45:58 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CeMMY-0001zB-VI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:45:51 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CeMMX-0004Do-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:45:49 +0100 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CeMMX-0000jz-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:45:49 +0100 Original-Received: from dsl081-242-215.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.242.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:45:49 +0100 Original-Received: from dave-gnus by dsl081-242-215.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:45:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl081-242-215.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IHn+2CyRAUuLHxSpzuHPUe04KeA= Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59429 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59429 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