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From: "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Garjola Dindi <garjola@garjola.net>
Cc: "info-gnus-english@gnu.org" <info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs resident looking for advice when Gnus blocks while fetching news
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 22:28:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xuu6blsm9zmy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a787zttr.fsf@pc-117-162.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Garjola Dindi's message of "Wed, 04 Dec 2019 22:04:00 +0100")

On Wednesday,  4 Dec 2019 at 22:04, Garjola Dindi wrote:
> Another thing I have found to make things slow is having an nnmaildir
> with lots of messages. I therefore archive the oldest ones and use
> mairix to index and query.
>
> Maybe other methods than nnmaildir would be faster?

My experience is that nnmaildir does not scale well at all.  nnml is
much faster.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.2.6 on Debian 9.9

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-05 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-04 14:46 Garjola Dindi
2019-12-04 15:42 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-12-04 21:04   ` Garjola Dindi
2019-12-05 22:28     ` Fraga, Eric [this message]
2019-12-09 11:04       ` Garjola Dindi
2019-12-09 12:19         ` Fraga, Eric
2019-12-10 11:28         ` Emanuel Berg via info-gnus-english
2019-12-10 11:35           ` Emanuel Berg via info-gnus-english
2019-12-10 12:01             ` Emanuel Berg via info-gnus-english
2019-12-04 23:45 ` William Henderson
2019-12-09 11:02   ` Garjola Dindi

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