On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 at 10:48AM +0530, Raghavendra Prabhu wrote: > I have also seen similar behavior. To alleviate it, I started using > tokyo cabinet as the default backend (from gdbm). Speedup is/was truly > surprising for me. For initial cache file buildup it took nearly the > same time, however for subsequent updates (the case you are > describing), I noticed a lot of difference, that I think distro > maintainers should also start using it in their builds .
I don't think the backend is the problem here. When I wasn't using the header cache, loading the mailbox would take several seconds, while Mutt read in all the messages. Now, with the cache, when opening the mailbox after messages have been added, the behavior appears exactly the same. I think Mutt figures out that the cache is outdated and completely ignores it. I'd like Mutt to use cache for the 99% of the messages which haven't changed, and to read in only the new ones. Is this possible? > Another reason which I heard on #mutt, was that using sidebar can > significant slowdown in maildir reading. I am not sure of the reasons > behind this but would be happy if someone clears it (or better patches > it :-)). I'm not using the sidebar, so this can't be it. I use the Ubuntu package. (I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.) Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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