From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some Gnus Registry questions
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:21:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bo7eegue.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.23938.1365663121.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:51:39 +0200 Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
TH> lately I was wondering why emacs increased from taking up 1.4% of my
TH> memory to nearly 5% just immediately after starting Gnus. By using
TH> Stefan Monnier's excellent memory-usage.el package (especially
TH> `memory-usage-find-large-variables') I was quickly able to identify that
TH> `gnus-registry-db' was the culprit.
TH> So now I've set `gnus-registry-max-entries' to 10000 (from nil), which
TH> has shrunken its size about a factor 5. Thereby, some questions
TH> wrt. the registry came to my mind.
TH> 1) What's `gnus-registry-max-pruned-entries' good for? Of course I've
TH> read its docs, but still I have no idea. What is a pruned entry?
We prune entries that are disposable, meaning they don't have any keys
considered "precious."
TH> 2) The default value of `gnus-registry-track-extra' is (subject sender
TH> recipient). When looking at the gnus registry eioio file, I can see
TH> that especially the subject tracking is responsible for a very large
TH> portion. Now the question is: do I actually need that?
Probably no, if you never search by subject. If you split by subject
with the registry, then yes.
TH> I don't use client-side splitting, so I think the only position where
TH> I use the registry is for referring articles (^) and gathering
TH> threads (A T), right? And since I also use
TH> (setq gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function
TH> 'gnus-gather-threads-by-references)
TH> I probably don't need the registry tracking subjects, right?
Correct. I wonder if it could figure this out automatically.
TH> In the same sense, do I actually need sender and recipient tracking?
TH> For article referring and thread gathering, I think only the
TH> Message-Id is needed, right?
Correct.
Ted
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2013-06-10 4:21 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-06-10 6:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-06-13 6:08 ` Tassilo Horn
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2013-06-16 9:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-07-03 8:07 ` Tassilo Horn
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2013-07-08 12:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-04-11 6:51 Tassilo Horn
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