Andrzej Adam Filip <[email protected]> wrote: > Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> wrote: >> Andrzej Adam Filip <[email protected]> writes: >>>>> b) Have you considered using local imap folders with last few >>>>> hundredths messages from the lists? >>>> >>>> A local IMAP server (and synchronizing with offlineimap) is very >>>> nice. But why only store the last few hundreds? My emacs-devel >>>> group has about 25.000 messages, its size is about 232 MB, and Gnus >>>> handles it fine. :-) >>> >>> How often do search *ALL* messages in the folder? :-) >> >> Very frequently. My local imap server (Dovecot) does full text indexing >> on the fly, so searches are very fast. Of course, if the imap server >> would search by grepping, large groups would be bad in that respect. > > Whenever I open 1_000+ messages IMAP folder ("server-less" dovecot) gnus > does full scoring and it takes a few seconds. > > After reading your "testimony" I tend to believe it may be > "under optimalisation" of my configuration.
After switching from emacs-22 to emacs-23 I have observed better performance (on Debian Lenny) -- [pl>en Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : [email protected] : [email protected] If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
