On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:09:38PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2009-11-10, Robert Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > Mutt seems to change behavior from day to day. Yesterday it flew. > > Today it hesitates after *every* key stroke, whether it's navigating > > between mailboxes or within a mailbox, tagging a message, saving, > > replying, you name it. The hesitation lasts for 3-5 seconds. It appears > > to be reading headers but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure why it should > > be reading headers when I try to tag, save, or reply. It even does it > > when I hit "?" to call up a menu. Since I subscribe to a bunch of lists, > > some of them high volume, it would take all day to go thru them with the > > constant hesitations. > > > > I'm running 1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu1 on ubuntu 8.04. I also have debian > > on this box but haven't yet had a chance to check mutt on that. > > > > Any pointers appreciated. > > FWIW, I've never seen mutt hesitate after _every_ keystroke, but > sometimes mine hesitates when performing operations that update the > index display, as when scrolling. I discovered that this happened > whenever I had one or more huge messages (on the order of a > megabyte) displayed in the index. > > My mailbox in that case is my Unix NFS-mounted $MAIL file.
I didn't have any messages anywhere near that long. A couple of Mb at most. Want to hear the maddening part? When I fired up mutt later in the day the problem was gone (until the next time). -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer"
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