From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17277 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Simmons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: many articles Date: 20 Sep 1998 19:12:02 -700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: simmonmt@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156007 32538 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:20:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15179 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:16:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAF22450; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 20:45:41 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 20 Sep 1998 21:14:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA15213 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 21:14:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from auckland.aotearoa.dom (ali-ca24-50.ix.netcom.com [209.110.229.242]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15127 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:14:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from simmonmt@localhost) by auckland.aotearoa.dom (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA02002; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-URL: http://www.netcom.com/~simmonmt X-Face: %&o"uzz{MF+m`-UdwIgi{)#6b&xg,`)*1XK8S}sBj%PF]t>dPiYe5pNS{@%ju[rxPJv |U'R`Xj^1|I|s`,g4r/!HPiu2jX;T1<=~X5DoJVdaK&SV`#j9`#52ZZu<>+NBvBW4fJ jf,SiM[>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann writes: >>>>> On 19 Sep 1998, Phil Humpherys said: Phil> and when I needto do something with these really large groups, I Phil> bail on [x]emacs and go straight mh. Then, I can always come Phil> back to xemacs later whenever I want. Kai> nnml is just like nnmh, only with .overview files ==> *much* faster! Kai> nnmh will need to read every file in the directory to assemble summary Kai> information, nnml just reads the .overview file. This could be his problem. Phil - what was the backend for the group that caused your machine to eat itself? Back in the (thankfully past) mists of time, when my XEmacs spool was just over 10000 messages, I was using a 32M Intel machine to read my mail.[1] It never took more than 2 El stops (5-10 minutes) for it to pop up the summary buffer. This was with nnml. Judging from your other posts, and from the symptoms you described, it sounds like you're still using nnmh. You really really should consider switching to nnml. This is a reversible step if you decide that you hate nnml. Matt Footnotes: [1] Of course, I also used the same machine, but with 16M, but I've tried to suppress that particularly painful memory. -- Matt Simmons - simmonmt@acm.org - http://www.netcom.com/~simmonmt You know when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, "Oh, have you got a cat?" Just once I wanted to say, "No, it's for company!"