From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15098 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus as slow as molasses Date: 26 Apr 1998 19:58:34 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154188 20132 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:49:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA31047 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:10:34 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10136 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 15:13:22 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAH02446; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:13:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:12:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02420 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:12:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 19278 invoked by uid 504); 26 Apr 1998 19:12:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19275 invoked from network); 26 Apr 1998 19:11:59 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (194.112.50.75) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 26 Apr 1998 19:11:58 -0000 Original-Received: from typhoon.ncc.co.uk (root@bh-cw08-144.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.53.144]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA19523; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 20:11:52 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by typhoon.ncc.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA11806; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 19:58:34 +0100 Original-To: Karl Kleinpaste In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "26 Apr 1998 11:03:27 -0400" Original-Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.4/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15098 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15098 Karl Kleinpaste writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> If the group contains 17000 articles, > >> selecting the first article will be Slow. > > Eze Ogwuma writes: > > Could you please tell me why this is the case. > > At the very least, kernel directory search time will be horrendous, > especially given the assumption that newer files will be listed near > the end of the directory. > > How large is the directory itself? That is, the byte-size, not the > file count. I'd guess it's in the vicinity of 250Kbytes, maybe more. LS reveals a size of 277504k with an actual file size of 69MB including the .overview file (4.3 MB). I didn't realize it would be so large. I suppose that now I need a good policy for archiving read messages. -- Eze Ogwuma