Re: frobnicating slow -- takes a long time on large database

2003-02-01 Thread Nix
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Ronan Waide stated: It probably helps if you keep your BBDB file size down. I know that my own 400-odd entries parse pretty quickly, and to be honest I could probably prune it further. 400? And I thought I was a pathetic no-hoper with no friends with 7000-odd entries. (I

Re: frobnicating slow -- takes a long time on large database

2003-01-20 Thread Jon Ericson
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And finally, since I'm in a chatty mood: I'm sorry about the recent flood of spam on the list, but I'm still retaining the open list policy for the same reasons as previously - any hurdle toward a new user getting help (i.e. you must subscribe before you

Re: frobnicating slow -- takes a long time on large database

2003-01-19 Thread Ronan Waide
On January 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is this a common thing? Do other users of bbdb just accept the initial lag the first time they use BBDB in an emacs session? It probably helps if you keep your BBDB file size down. I know that my own 400-odd entries parse pretty quickly, and to be honest

Re: frobnicating slow -- takes a long time on large database

2003-01-15 Thread Jochen Küpper
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:45:04 -0800 Ami Fischman wrote: Ami Using BBDB with gnus and automatic snarfing of info when reading usenet Ami groups. This has led to my ~/.bbdb file being about 760KB large. I use bbdb-expire to keep the bbdb at a reasonable level -- although that means a few MB for