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[Barry Fishman]

On 2023-07-15 08:23:03 -04, Barry Fishman wrote:
> On 2023-07-14 20:35:41 -07, Syeed Ali wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 23:08:54 -0400
>> Barry Fishman <barry at ecubist.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure how Emacs would behave with 19078 messages selected, since
> it does most of its work in memory, but I have done things looking
> at 1000 messages at a time.

Well curiosity got the best of me and went ahead and tried it.

I marked all the messages in the news group unread, and then entering it,
I had 19078 message lines in my Emacs buffer.  I could look at random
posts without problems.  Then I selected all the messages and told Emacs
to copy them into a new mail folder.

Emacs was quiet after that, and would not respond.  I could see in a
terminal window the messages showing up one at a time in the folder.
Emacs is unfortunately single threaded.

7 hours later, Emacs came back to show all the messages in the group
saved, and I had a new mail folder with 19078 messages in it, taking
up 164M of disk space.  I then packed it in a 124M mbox file, which
gziped into 27M.

During the process Emacs consumed about 80% of one of my CPUs and had a
resident size that stayed stable around its normal size of about 234M.

I could use MH to read messages already downloaded and sample messages
as they came in, with familiar names attached.  For example there was a
discussion in 2007 on the GPL that Andy Stetzinger began which is the
heart of what Red Hat is currently doing.

-- 
Barry Fishman