From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5629 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Catching up Mail Groups - Efficiency - More Info. Date: 20 Mar 1996 20:19:18 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146206 884 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:36:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA05518 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:46:51 -0800 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:19:19 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:19:18 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il's message of 20 Mar 1996 12:19:35 +0300 Original-Lines: 16 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5629 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5629 aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il (Aharon (Al) Schkolnik) writes: > Here is what I believe to be the relevant part of the newsrc.eld file: > > ("nnbabyl:mail.gnus" 2 ((1 . 2191)) ((save 1818 1861 2151 2154) [...] > (tick 489 639 644 866 987 991 (1477 . 1478) 1550 1643 1655 1661 1676 This is the problem. When a group has a wide "spread" (which is the result when old articles are ticked), then total-expiry will be slow. nnbabyl will here try to look for articles in the 489-2191 range each time expiry is performed. This will take quite a while. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."