hmm, on Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:38:07PM +0800, David Schulz said that > If i now type `mutt` into my Terminal, mutt will take about 736 seconds > just to open up the Mailbox, displaying a "Reading > /home/ds/mail/INBOX...x/148800 (3%)". > `top` shows the CPU (P4, 3GhZ) working away at 60% or so, but vmstat -c > 100 nor iostat -c 100 show much activity.
i am not sure how mutt operates but i can confirm very poor performance if the mailbox is on flash devices even with mailboxes 20-30M big. i tried to outsmart it putting the mbox on mfs but it's no use, it is still tampering with the flash for reasons i cannot explain. mutt is slow. -f -- never enough. it is never enough.
