Re: Maildir ext4 slowness
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 08:19:09AM CEST, Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com> said:
> 2014-04-09 6:53 GMT+02:00 Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>:
>
> >
> > Mutt, as with other MUAs, creates a header cache so it only needs to
> > read the headers of new mail files. If you're slowing down with large
> > maildir folders, the most likely problem is that your header caching is
> > not working properly.
> >
>
> There a set header_cache option to add in muttrc.
> I use mutt+maildir+procmail on ext3 for my work mailbox, can't tell too
> much about speed because I often purge messages and got ~100.
I've seen that mutt was faster when using a locl imap server, with
header_cache and tokyocabinet as a db lib, than with same setting and
direct maildir access.
Reply to: