On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 02:19:01PM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Friday, 05 April 2013 at 15:12, Nicolas Bock wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 10:52:51PM +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> > > * Nicolas Bock <nicolasb...@gmail.com>:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I have about 190,000 messages in my +[Gmail]/All Mail folder. Changing 
> > > > to that
> > > > folder always takes a minute or two despite the fact that I am using
> > > > header_cache. Is there something else I could do to speed up opening 
> > > > large
> > > > folders?
> > > 
> > > Something along these lines?
> > > 
> > > # Caching
> > > set header_cache="~/.mutt/.cache/"
> > > set tmpdir="~/.mutt/.tmp/"
> > > set message_cachedir="~/.mutt/.messages/"
> > > set message_cache_clean = no
> > > 
> > Thanks. So far it doesn't seem to make much difference though. I compiled 
> > mutt
> > with gdbm, does anyone know whether other database backends make a 
> > difference
> > in terms of performance?
> 
> tokyocabinet should be noticeably faster.
> 
I forgot to mention that according to:

http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/benchmark.pdf

it depends a bit on what API one uses with tokyocabinet. I don't know what
mutt is using though.

nick

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