Re: switch to another window while gnus is busy, nnmaildir slow startup

[Justus-bulk@Piater.name]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:20:11
-0600:

> What exactly is slow for you?  Obviously we all have our specific Gnus
> setups, so I think it's useful to find the slow spots that affect all
> users, not just the developers.

While we're at it :-)


Justus-bulk@Piater.name wrote on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:29:39 +0100:

> Hi,
>
> This topic seems to come up regularly on this list...:
>
> The nnmaildir backend starts up slowly (about three minutes for me,
> with about 25000 messages), apparently because it reads *all* NOV
> information at startup time.
>
> This approach obviously does not scale well.
>
> My question is: Could this be done on a per-group basis? In this case,
> the NOV parsing could be deferred to the first time one enters a
> group, and nnmaildir initial startup should be almost instantaneous.
>
> Thanks,
> Justus
>
>
> Addendum: Critique + suggestion out of the way, I'd like to add that I
> am nevertheless extremely happy with nnmaildir. I switched to it
> because of its promise of stability and easy way of archiving messages
> by entire groups, and it is paying off big time in both respects. (On
> the other hand, if it scaled better, there would hardly be a need to
> archive messages...)