Re: [PATCH] Mail fetching on memory-poor machines

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

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* Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>  on Wed, 14 Jul 1999
| Why not fix the problem?  The results of the problem are so bad that
| it's basically a bug.  Fixing it seems like a more logical thing to
| do, rather than force everybody to use the program in a certain way.

Because, if I understand what your code does (which might not be the case),
it only works for people who use Gnus "your" way while slowing it down
unnecessarilly for those who are not on memory-starved systems, have large
nnfolders, and do use Gnus to split mail sources.

Personally, I am all for lean and mean, which is one of the reasons why I
don't use nnfolder.  I tried it, briefly, back when I was on a 12MB system.
That was a mistake :).

For what its worth, inode starvation is not as likely as you might think.
The average mail message is ~3-4kB; the average inode size on a modern
filesystem is 4kB.  One message, one inode.  On an ~1GB filesystem you will
have around 256k inodes (more, actually).  In practical terms, you will run
out of space before you run out of inodes, unless your filesystem is tuned
with unusually large inodes or you are suffering under a woefully
restrictive inode quota.
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