On Fri, 02 Aug 2002, Nate Campi wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:53:32AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > > Please realize that it's not enough to stat them. Your MUA needs to open > > all of them to read the mail headers: > > True, not the best proof, but opening that mail folder on ext3 takes > only a second or two with mutt, and opening it on reiserfs with mutt > takes 30 seconds or more. Opening debian-isp with a mere 6000 messages takes approximatly 30 seconds here. The NFS server is a P2 400, hd is some lvm scsi raid1, NFS client a P3 500 and the link is a Fast Ethernet (3com) with no load at all. I'm currently using ext3 on the server. I hoped to get some performance gain from switching to Maildir and it certainly has its advantages (locking) but I seriously consider going back to good old mbox which took perhaps 3 or 4 seconds to open. Opening debian-bugs-*, -devel or -user takes _minutes_, it is simply no longer fun. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred. | : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palfrader.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/
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