On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Robert Holtzman wrote: > 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).
Mutt checks for mailbox changes frequently, which is why new mail can show up while you're doing things like scrolling around through a mailbox. If you're using a remote mailbox and the network connection's being flaky, or it's local and your hard drive is having fits, things can get pretty choppy.
