Re: whole lotta kays

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> Variations are presumably caused by ticked articles, and the setting
>> of nntp-nov-gap (by experimenting, I found long lived groups, with
>> lots of articles, to open a *lot* faster, when decreasing this value).

> What seems to be an optimal value for that variable?  

I did some tests on some no.* groups last autumn, but I didn't save
them anywhere.

I ended up having nntp-nov-gap set to 1, which made these groups load
a lot faster, but probably slowed down groups with lots of new
articles. 

Then I "solved" the problem by creating nnml-folders where I could
move articles I wanted to save from these groups, deleted (or whatever
the Gnus term was again) all the ticked articles, and used the default
for nntp-nov-gap.

Would a more formalized test, with timings for groups with different
characteristics, and different settings of nntp-nov-gap, be of
interest?

If so: what numbers should I primarily look at?


- Steinar