Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:29:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 08 apr 14, 22:47:05, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > 
> > Of late, I've observed that folders with over 1000 messages seem quite
> > slow to respond (order of 3-4 seconds), which wasn't really happening
> > in the old days when I was using mboxes.
> 
> I get at most 2-3 seconds with 12000+ messages Maildirs :)
> 
> Following settings might help:
> 
> # This speeds up mutt especially with large folders
> set header_cache=~/.cache/mutt/header/
> unset header_cache_compress
> unset maildir_header_cache_verify
> set message_cachedir=~/.cache/mutt/message/
> set read_inc=500
> 
> More details about them in muttrc(5).
> 
> > I prefer Maildir since I can use notmuch to index my mails easily.
> 
> Yep.

You are correct. This helped alleviate the delay significantly!

I'll try to play around more to check things out, but it looks like
this is what I was missing.

Thanks!

Kumar
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