On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:19:35PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, November 12 at 10:57 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > > Hard to say as they go by pretty fast but there are a total of 37 in > > ~./mail. That includes 14 "saved-*", backup, spam, outbox, etc. > > Don't know if mutt checks these. Can't see why it should. > > How many have you told it to check via the `mailboxes` command in your > muttrc?
Since, to my knowledge, for a mailbox to be shown in the sidebar it must be included in the list of mailboxes and inclusion means it will be checked, the answer is...all. If I'm wrong please correct me. > > > What I still don't understand is why mutt displays this behavior and > > when I close it for a few hours/days then use it the next time, the > > problem doesn't appear at all. > > Depends on the status/condition of your hard drive. For example, if > your OS can cache all of the necessary meta data and inodes, it > doesn't have to check the disk every time... but if it cannot cache > them (for whatever reason, such as "doing lots of other disk > operations at the time", for example, if its rebuilding/maintaining a > search index or something), then it has to touch the disk to check up > on those files. Not sure if this applies. The processes you mention all seem to be ram and/or swap dependent. 2Gb should be sufficient. Again, if I'm wrong a correction would be appreciated. > > > One more thing. When mutt polls after a keystroke, it does it at > > *every* keystroke 1-2 seconds apart. Well within the polling > > interval. Something seems inconsistent. > > Hmmm... what version of mutt did you say you were using? I know there > was a bug a while back that made polls happen more frequently than > they were supposed to, but I'm pretty sure that got fixed. 1.5.17 which is the one in the ubuntu repo. I like to stick to binary packages as upgrading and removing are easier. Also distro specific dependencies are taken care of to say nothing of patching, compiling and package building are a pita. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer"
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