From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: IMAP vs nnml ? (was: Palm and Gnus)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:00:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wv2zg25o.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafr8t881r9.fsf@INBOX.auto.gnus.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:36:58 +0200")
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> I would not be surprised to learn that nnmaildir is much slower on a
>> block-structured filesystem. ReiserFS (which is not block-structured)
>> handles lots of small files quickly and space-efficiently, and
>> nnmaildir takes advantage of that.
>
> Well, I don't expect nnml to be better than nnmaildir in this case.
> IIUC, both use one file per message.
Yes, but nnmaildir also uses one NOV file per message. So startup
would probably be significantly slower. (Afterwards, the NOV data is
typically cached in memory.)
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-16 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-13 14:12 Palm and Gnus Ian Swainson
2001-09-13 23:15 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-09-14 9:43 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-09-14 9:59 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-09-14 11:20 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-09-15 10:16 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-09-14 9:56 ` Ian Swainson
2001-09-15 10:19 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-09-15 12:21 ` IMAP vs nnml ? (was: Palm and Gnus) Fabien Penso
2001-09-15 14:48 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-09-15 21:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-15 21:21 ` Paul Jarc
2001-09-15 23:36 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-16 5:00 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2001-09-16 10:13 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
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