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Re: mutt: slow reading d-u



On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:59:32PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:

> >> Are you using maildir (opposed to mailbox)?  If you keep a lot of
> >> content around consider using ext3 with dir_index enabled.  Do you have
> > 
> > That's on
> 
> Did you enable it yourself or did the installer do it for you? If the
> former is the case, you need to unmount the partition and run 'fsck -fD'
> on the file system to actually create the indexes.

By the installer. I would have rebooted the machine just to make sure.
Yes, I know, but it's only 1.5 years since I switched away and old habits
die hard (if ever).

> >> header_cache set to a directory in your .muttrc?
> > 
> > Hhhm, I've had that set to a file in muttng. When I copied the muttngrc
> > to muttrc I must have disabled it because I found it commented out. Now
> > it's back on and opening the d-u folder takes about 1 sec. (more than 6000
> > mails on a PIV-1600).
> 
> Sounds about right. Opening d-u with 10,000 mails over IMAP (Dovecot 1.0
> running on localhost) takes about 2-3 seconds on my P3@1.1GHz using
> mutt and header cache.

Thanks for the help. Now if I just find an editor to my liking (cream is
95% ok).

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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