On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:00:41PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> The reason for the speed decrease you are observing is
> that earlier mutt versions' fcntl locking didn't really
> work. Working fcntl locking, however, will invalidate the
> NFS client's cache, which in turn reduces performance to
> over-the-wire speed on your local network.
Mmm... more than 4 seconds to read a 178K mailbox mounted over a fast
NFS (using fiber) seems _very_ slow to me. If I create a new file (so
it can't be cached on my machine) on our mailhost with the same size
and copy it over to my machine, it only takes 0.13 seconds. mutt 1.0
manages to read the same mailbox in about half to three quarters of a
second.
I get the impression that invalidating the cache can't be the sole
reason for this speed degradation.
Cheers,
-Ives
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Ives Aerts (Senior R&D engineer) Sony Digital Media Europe
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