On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:22:24PM -0500, Rob Reid wrote: > > My freshmeat folder has about that many messages, but it only takes a few > seconds to open (never timed it), and I'm using mbox on ext3, so your setup > *should* be faster according to the hype. > > Are you reading from NFS, IMAP, POP, or a 386 or something? Have you tried > using hdparm to tune your hard drive? Is mutt being any slower than Evolution > was?
The file system is ReiserFS and it's local, however the machine is fairly new but it's a laptop so the hdparm figures are pretty lousy. Evolution would open the folder in a snap. I guess there's some caching going on there to. I have another partition with ext3. An operation like "find <mailfolder>| wc -l" would be noticeably slower on ext3 then reiserfs I moved to ReiserFS for my maildir after reading the hype at http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-reiserfs-howto.html, and at least at my computer the hype holds true. op -- o polite http://plusseven.com/gpg/
