At 3:20 PM EST on March 17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent off: > 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.
I think a previous reply had the right answer: maildir isn't faster than mbox for all operations. I also get ridiculous delays by just typing 'ls' in a directory with thousands of files. -- In Paris in December 1997, just before being convicted of the murders of two counterespionage agents, international terrorist Carlos the Jackal was sentenced to 10 days' solitary confinement for calling a prison guard a "gnu." - News of The Weird That _is_ weird. Didn't the guard know it was a compliment? Robert I. Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/ PGP Key: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
