Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Sergiy,

Your patch makes sense, we've applied it to the CVS dev tree :
http://listes.cru.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sympa/wwsympa/archived.pl

Thanks.

Sergiy Zhuk wrote:

> The default algorithm is not very effective in case you need to add an 
> article to an archive with a large number of articles. archived.pl is reading 
> and sorting the arctxt dir on every article to find the next article number, 
> so if you have several thousand messages there,
> it's taking a lot of time. mhonarc takes a while to process the message too, 
> but at least we can eliminate the delay sympa is imposing by indexing the 
> arctxt once and keeping the last article number in a file.
> The attached patch does that.
> The change is transparent to current installations, since if we can't find 
> the index file, we create it on the fly.
> It's also easy to reset the last number by removing the index file.
> In addition, I've removed sort() in readdir() since if you have a lot of 
> messages for the same list, you won't be able to process anything else before 
> you process all of them, which is kinda bad for user experience.
> I'm gonna re-do sympa queue processing in near future.
>  
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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites