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>>>>> David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> I have a noticable delay when I exit the nnml group handling the
>> VFR mailing list (100 to 150 messages a day).  I've been toying
>> with the idea that it has something to do with having a lot of
>> sparsely ticked articles in the group...?

> If you use total-expire,

total-expire is what I use, because only total-expire makes sense to
me. 

> Gnus loops over every article in the "active range" checking the
> dates on the files to see if they should be expired.  If you have an
> old ticked or cached article the active range can be huge.  

This is probably what happens to me.

> This is one of the good arguments for changing Gnus' dependence on
> the notion of a single active range.  However, it requires changes
> to a lot of code.

Anything that can make the behaviour of Gnus more efficient, without
requiring me to change my habits, I see as a good thing.


- Steinar