From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42496 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: db-backed mail back end Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:39:26 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177729 12074 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:22:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23725 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 08:39:59 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 08:39:59 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16TfQA-0001H3-00; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:39:46 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:39:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA14192 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:39:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23711 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2002 08:39:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23706 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 08:39:28 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 08:39:28 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16TfRG-0001N5-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:40:54 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1011861654 4840 195.204.10.148 (24 Jan 2002 08:40:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jan 2002 08:40:54 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _Knowing We Was Right From The Start_: "Hood - Biochemistry Revision Can Wait" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: |J writes: > If I was using it, I'd have to load it's database on memory. For a 15k > entries database it would be really slow and memory consuming. But you only have to `read' the list once (per Gnus session, which (for most people) last quite a while), and then it's in memory. > If I was using LDAP, I'd have to make queries to the LDAP server, > which is specialized in this kind of query and would not have all the > 15k entries eating up my RAM. Not to tell the amount of time saved on > not-loading these entries and parsing them. Querying an LDAP server per mail you receive will be slow, though. > Oh! And not to tell the safety improvement on avoiding data > corruption. Data corruption isn't much of an issue with mail splitting, since that comes from .emacs anyway... bbdb is a different matter, though. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen