Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Hi,

<snip>
> Now, the test. First, I create a big maildir folder with:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> set -e
> 
> dir=maildir-test
> rm -rf "$dir"
> maildirmake "$dir"
> 
> for i in `seq 5000`
> do
>   date=$((10000000+i))
>   cat <<EOF > "$dir/cur/$date.1.host:2,S"
> From: <a@b.invalid>
> Subject: $date
> Message-ID: <$date@vinc17.org>
> 
> test $i
> EOF
> done
> ------------------------------------------------------------
<snip>

the situation becomes much worse if you generate the filenames from a random
sequence. Try to replace the command "seq" by "jot" from the package athena-jot like

for i in $(jot 5000 1 5000)

That makes the numerical order of the files have a random i-node number sequence .
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Regards,
jvp.