Greg Miller wrote:
> Seth Spitzer wrote:
>
>> Why can't you just mark the old ones as read, and then do a
>>
>> "View | Messages | Unread"?
>>
>> On a related note, I'm in the middle of fixing two related bugs:
>>
>> "View | Messages | Unread" isn't persisting.
>>
>> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63853
>>
>> Viewing Thread with Unread isn't suported
>> (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52927)
>
>
> I was under the impression that the reason Mozilla grabbed 100MB+ and
> slowed to a crawl on large newsgroups was because it was loading at
> least some of the data for existing messages. Is it only loading those
> whose subjects are visible or something?
Using the view that Seth suggests will help somewhat - if all headers
are displayed, the memory consumed by loading all the data in the .msf
file is a small percentage of the total memory taken up (i.e., the info
we build up to display the headers takes up most of the memory
consumed). I'd guess you'd save 90+MB in the 100MB+ case, roughly.
I've done a little work on the purging of old news messages, but I don't
know when it will be finished. Soon, I hope.
- David
