From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41985 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus slow incorporating vast quantities of mail Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:47:03 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177294 8991 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:14:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 480 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 18:47:40 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 18:47:40 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16QC8r-0005tX-00; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:47:33 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:47:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA16990 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:47:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 476 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2002 18:47:19 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 471 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 18:47:18 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 18:47:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29750 invoked by uid 50); 14 Jan 2002 18:47:04 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (David Z Maze's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:22:40 -0500") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41985 David Z Maze 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)