On 20201218, Josef Wolf wrote:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 07:39:05AM -0800, Felix Finch wrote:
No idea what would be too much. Currently, there are about 7300 messages in my
inbox and ps(1) reports this:
raven:/ # ps axl|grep -v grep |egrep ' (mutt|COMMAND)'
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
0 1000 1135 19716 20 0 97188 21104 SyS_po S+ pts/3 0:00 mutt
0 1000 15559 6391 20 0 97260 21124 - S pts/2 0:00 mutt
raven:/ #
but currently, the problem does not appear. I'll have to wait until it happens
again.
I think it's a long shot, but maybe mutt has a memory leak and the size of your
mail dirs overloads it eventually.
Long ago, when computers were slower, my maildirs got big enough to notice how
slowly an open or search took, so I created an Archive dir and have a nightly
cron job which moves older messages from the main maildirs to the Archive. My
biggest is 14G, but mutt took less than 5 seconds to open it, and the memory
footprint isn't much different.
$ ps axl|grep -v grep |egrep ' (mutt|COMMAND)'
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
0 1000 13476 13475 20 0 99364 11252 wait S+ pts/1 4:20 mutt
0 1000 25739 25738 20 0 184164 104184 poll_s S+ pts/7 0:03 mutt
The first one is the normal long-term mutt, the second is the one I just fired
up for the 14G Archive.
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