From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35836 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP Performance Date: 15 Apr 2001 13:44:36 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie 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 1035171522 5222 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:38:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 28839 invoked by alias); 15 Apr 2001 20:44:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28834 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2001 20:44:40 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 15 Apr 2001 20:44:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1365 invoked by uid 50); 15 Apr 2001 20:44:36 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Johan Parin's message of "15 Apr 2001 20:22:00 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35836 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35836 Johan Parin writes: > I don't know what I'm doing wrong (I certainly hope I'm doing something > wrong), but I have severe performance problem with moving messages to > IMAP folders. > Experiment : 100 1-line messages created. > Gnus > Move between IMAP folders : 18 1/2 min > Copy between IMAP folders : 12 min > Netscape/Win > Copy between IMAP folders : about 2 seconds > (the folders are on the same IMAP server) Moving and copying messages is rather slow in nnml too. I'd love to see that fixed. It really shouldn't take hours, or even minutes, to move a few thousand messages between nnml groups if one can use rename() in the underlying file system (and Gnus can always fall back to a copy if it can't). -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)