Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
>
> * clemensF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:49:56PM +0200)
> >> Ronny Haryanto:
>
> >> I've converted my mailboxes to maildir once, it turned out to be
> >> slower than mbox, so I converted back to mbox now. Dunno about MH, but
> >> I'm guessing it's about the same speed as maildir since it resembles
> >> maildir.
>
> > are your files on a network?
>
> Actually, I think the problem is due to the huge number of files in your
> subdirs .. depending on the OS (w/ Linux I think the turn around point is
> between 1000 and 2000 entries per dir) soo many files in your directory
> makes all directory access slower ..
> sticking all files in a big folder will improve speed ..
> a lot of small files in a dir vs a big file containing a lot of small
> messages shows that the big file is faster
> (this is at least partly due to the fact that the caching helps ..)
well, i',m on the verge of converting to [nx]mh. but i stick to the
rules, i.e. i will answer each message to me in due time, so i can't
keep n*1000 messages, a few dozen are the utmost horror to me.
so, why in the world would one want to leave mh for mutt?
clemens
