From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com>
Subject: Re: Gnus as slow as molasses
Date: 26 Apr 1998 11:03:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxkaf98pqv4.fsf@pocari-sweat.jprc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Eze Ogwuma's message of "26 Apr 1998 02:12:31 +0100"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> If the group contains 17000 articles,
>> selecting the first article will be Slow.
Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-26 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-17 4:21 Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-17 6:11 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-17 9:49 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-04-17 15:29 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-17 11:12 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-04-17 16:20 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-24 20:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-17 18:38 ` Felix Lee
1998-04-17 19:46 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-04-17 19:03 ` Felix Lee
1998-04-25 5:04 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-25 13:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-25 14:49 ` Eze Ogwuma
[not found] ` <m3hg3idjz7.fsf@sparky.gnus.org>
1998-04-25 17:46 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-25 23:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-26 1:12 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-26 12:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-26 18:59 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-26 15:03 ` Karl Kleinpaste [this message]
1998-04-26 18:58 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-27 14:17 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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