limit of mutt

[Peter Bartosch <lead@gmx.de>]

hello debians!

i ran into trouble with mutt - where is the maillimit?

my situation:

i rewrote my procmailrc, then i refilter my collected mail (mostly from
debian ;-) with it -- that works great

but than, i´ve wanted to view into my debian-devel-mbox 
mutt ran and ran -showing "sorting mail" (the swap-space decreased so i´ve  
added a swapfile) - after waiting about three hours i killed mutt (the 
processor ran idle)

then i´ve tried it with another comp over nfs -- this time it worked without
prob´s

the mbox was about 90megs big

the first comp. had 16mb ram, 32mb swap and 80 mb swapfile

the second (nfs), had 64mb ram 64mb swap - no swapfile


i know the first is underpowert, but the time in this case doesn´t matter
(i´ve wanted to split the mbox) and i´m confident that such will work ;-)

in meantime i´ve done all work with the second-option 



here´s my question:

had this been a problem of mutt or only of resources??



hope, i´m not too pushing, it´ just for info



pleas excuse my bad english

until next mail ;)

Peter
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