On Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:59 pm, mikea wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:02:49PM -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > On Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:19 pm, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > > Hi. I'm having a bad problem with mutt: it tends to hang whenever it > > > decides it says "Sorting mailbox..." (any time I try to quit, change > > > folders, or recall a postponed message). It simply stops responding, > > > and only SIGKILL seems to kill it. My version is 1.3.28-1 from Debian > > > sid; the > > > > [snip] > > > > I'd really appreciate it if someone could respond, even if they don't > > know what the cause or solution to my problem is. Thanks. > > How big is the mailbox that is being sorted? Mine is huge, and > even with 2 PIII-866, it takes a while. > > Open up another shell session and look at what's eating CPU and > beating on disk. On my FreeBSD system, I'd use top and vmstat for > this.
Thanks for your reply! Well, I'm a little embarrassed now; it looks like maybe mutt has spontaneously started working again. I honestly don't know what happened; I did update my Debian packages yesterday and removed some that I never use, but none of them seemed to be in any way mutt- or even mail-related. I guess I'll be back with more questions if it stops working again.
