Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 20:35:40 -0500 Daniel Barrett wrote: > I've been using VM for nearly 25 years and maintain over 3500 mail > folders with it. I have yet to see another email program that scales > this well and is this flexible. Same here, although I have only 1000

Re: [VM] vm-save-buffer

Gian Uberto Lauri writes: > I have ti check, but I think I'll change the function used. NOt using vm-save-buffer. -- ing. Gian Uberto Lauri Senior Solution Developer Dir. Tecnica Innovazione Ricerca / Tech. Innovation & Research Div. gianuberto.la...@eng.it Sun Java Certified Programmer

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

> I've been using VM for nearly 25 years and maintain over 3500 mail > folders with it. I have yet to see another email program that > scales this well and is this flexible. Totally agreed. Huge kudos to Uday. VM rules! Cheers, --Manuel --

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:41:21 -0500 Daniel Barrett wrote: > On November 5, 2015, Johan Vromans wrote: > >...when a mail folder gets big (more than 2000 messages or so) > >VM really slows down. > > Hmm, I have a 2500 message Amazon folder (mbox format) that opens in >

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 18:09:36 + Uday Reddy wrote: > You will find it 8.2.0a and 8.2.0b prereleases: > > https://launchpad.net/vm Okay. Upgraded to 8.2.0b. IMAP cache load time is still within a second. The cache is 130MB and it takes approx. 15 seconds to save.

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

Johan Vromans writes: > However, when a mail folder gets big (more than 2000 messages or so) > VM really slows down. With big IMAP folders it becomes painfully slow > when saving (due to the local cache of 100+Mb) and autosave (or poll?) > makes Emacs unresponsive for several seconds every couple

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:20:51 -0500 Daniel Barrett wrote: > Ah, we are comparing apples and oranges then. I'm not reading over > IMAP. I'm reading and saving mbox files directly on local disk. The IMAP cache file *is* an mbox file on local disk. -- Johan

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

John Stoffel says: > I've got over 2500 mail folders, some with over 2000 messages from > the past 20+ years. VM is plenty fast, easy to search with (though > I admit I do NOT do virtual folders at all...) I, too, have been using VM for more than 20 years, and only began using

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

Johan Vromans writes: > > *** Initial load of the IMAP cache often stops after a number of messages: > > Retrieving message 346 (of 1689) from Home:Inbox, 100%... [3 times] > Retrieval from Home:Inbox signaled: (vm-imap-protocol-error expected > (BODY[] string) in FETCH response) Retrieving

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

As I really understand it, isn't part of the problem that Emacs buffers are limited to something like 256Mb, so we're also hitting some of those limits with big folders? And I don't have as big a system as that, and for me the key advante of VM is that I can edit in my favorite editor, and it's

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

On November 5, 2015, Johan Vromans wrote: >...when a mail folder gets big (more than 2000 messages or so) >VM really slows down. Hmm, I have a 2500 message Amazon folder (mbox format) that opens in half a second. That might be because I have a fast 12-core CPU and an SSD, but just in case, here