[SM-USERS] Manipulating REALLY big folders

[Jason Corekin]

I have at least one folder that I use for archiving a mailing list that I am on that has almost 5000 messages.  It displays just fine when I  leave it in the unthreaded paginated view.  However when I try to either display in threaded view or one large list, I get and error message that says that the server reached it's execution time limit of 30 seconds.  While this was running I popped open a window on the server and ran top to find that httpd (RH 8.0 Apache 2) was using as high as 99% of the processing resources. So that leaves me with two questions.   1)  Is there anyway lengthen the execution time limit?   2) Is there anyway to increase the efficiency of the process so that it doesn't take so long in the first place?   Jason Corekin