From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58386 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wuertele Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: growing nnmaildir and intolerable gnus slowness Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:50:30 -0700 Organization: Berkeley Fluent Network Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <03n00agy12.fsf@msgid.viggen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094176319 17738 80.91.224.253 (3 Sep 2004 01:51:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 01:51:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6928@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Sep 03 03:51:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C33Ez-0004E1-00 for ; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:51:50 +0200 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 1C33E5-0001QK-00; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C33Dx-0001QC-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1C33Dx-0002XX-5h for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFB03A01ED for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:50:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C33Dr-0006MS-00 for ; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:50:39 +0200 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 ; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:50:38 +0200 Original-Received: from dave-gnus by dsl081-242-215.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:50:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 22 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:qO5T13HAHrMIkvTz39PdpRY9UNQ= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58386 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58386 Me> As my nnmaildirs grow in size, gnus gets slower and slower. Me> Strangely, it isn't when I enter a nnmaildir group from the Groups Me> page that is slow. It is when I *quit* the nnmaildir group to go back Me> to the Groups page that things take forever. =D8ystein> I used to see this also in large nnml groups, and traced it to =D8ystein> gnus-summary-expire-articles. My not-really-a-solution: =D8ystein> ;; remember to run M-x gnus-group-expire-all-groups once in a wh= ile, =D8ystein> ;; or no articles will ever be expired.. =D8ystein> (remove-hook 'gnus-summary-prepare-exit-hook 'gnus-summary-expir= e-articles) =D8ystein> ;; I also run expire from the gnus-demon, every four hour or so: =D8ystein> (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-expire-all-groups 240 t) =D8ystein> (gnus-demon-init) I tried this and it did not have any effect. My exit times are still huge. Have there been any changes to gnus since my version (Oort Gnus v0.18) that would affect nnmaildir speed? Dave