* On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 06:11:35PM +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-24-04 at 19:31 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> > I've noticed that as I get more signatures on my key, gpg is getting
> > slower and slower decrypting or authenticating emails. 
> 
> A partial improvement can be had by periodically running
> 
>       gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches
> 
> The first time I did that I chopped the time check-trustdb time from >
> 30 seconds down to 8s or so. 
> 
> A bigger performance boost is to set no-auto-check-trustdb in
> ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf (especially seeing as how you're doing it periodically
> via a cron job). Not suffering that 30 second wait every time Evolution
> fetched a new key on me was nice.

Thanks, the combination worked a treat :-)

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