Large keyrings, GnuPG slowdowns/Seahorse segfaults

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 12:56:13PM +0200, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 15 September 2002 10:54, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> > I was also wondering where, if anywhere, on the priority list were
> > optimizations for users with large keyrings. I realize average users
> > will have keyrings of maybe 2 megabytes max, but shouldn't there
> > should be some way of keeping things from becoming dog slow with
> > large keyrings?
> 
> You should try if running 'gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches' helps. I just ran 
> it again yesterday and the time needed for a run of 'gpg 
> - --check-trustdb' went down from about 10 seconds to about 1 second.

Wow! This makes gpg --check-trustdb take a twentieth of the time here.