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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: overview file access when spooling and nnml/nnimap performance
Date: 22 Sep 1999 18:17:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafg106yl8j.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hannu Koivisto's message of "22 Sep 1999 18:58:28 +0300"

Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:

> [...] The primary reason why I was
> thinking about backend was the spooling phase.  That's the primary
> problem I'm seeing now -- it has slowed down a lot while my folders
> have grown larger and I don't think Gnus needs to do anything that
> would prevent scaling in this case. [...]

Maybe the filesystem prevents scaling?  Aren't huge directories
hideously slow in Unix?

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.


  reply	other threads:[~1999-09-22 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-22 13:48 Hannu Koivisto
1999-09-22 14:13 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-22 15:32   ` Hannu Koivisto
1999-09-22 15:50     ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-22 17:00       ` Simon Josefsson
1999-09-22 16:52     ` Simon Josefsson
1999-09-22 14:54 ` Simon Josefsson
1999-09-22 15:58   ` Hannu Koivisto
1999-09-22 16:17     ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
1999-09-22 17:08     ` Simon Josefsson
1999-09-22 18:15       ` Hannu Koivisto
1999-10-04 10:27 ` Robert Bihlmeyer

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