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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Gnus slow incorporating vast quantities of mail
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:47:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yln0zgvkgo.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y68lmf0vr5b.fsf@nerd-xing.mit.edu> (David Z Maze's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:22:40 -0500")

David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU> writes:

> More configuration details: using nnml (into an AFS directory) fed by a
> (Kerberized) POP server, sorting using a moderately complex
> nnmail-split-fancy rule set.  Most of the time it works reasonably; 'ls
> -lSr ~/Mail' says that the new three largest Incoming... files I have
> are 2.5, 1.4, and 1.2 MB, respectively, and I haven't noticed sorting
> those being too painful.

> Any hints as to what might cause this?

Did a lot of that mail sort into the same directory?  I don't trust AFS
file creation speed, and I particularly don't trust AFS with large
directories.

Note also that AFS performance can vary a *lot* depending on network
conditions, file server load, and a lot of other things that are hard to
measure or control.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-14 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-14 16:22 David Z Maze
2002-01-14 18:47 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2002-01-14 19:19   ` David Z Maze

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