Re: 1.2 slower than 1.0 over NFS

2000-07-12 Thread Ives Aerts
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 09:58:16AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > Mh... Did you check whether or not this only occurs when > you start up mutt, or also when you change folders? Also when I change folders. Cheers, -Ives __ Ives

Re: 1.2 slower than 1.0 over NFS

2000-07-12 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-07-12 09:44:31 +0200, Ives Aerts wrote: > Mmm... more than 4 seconds to read a 178K mailbox > mounted over a fast NFS (using fiber) seems _very_ slow > to me. If I create a new file (so it can't be cached on > my machine) on our mailhost with the same size and copy > it over to my machine

Re: 1.2 slower than 1.0 over NFS

2000-07-12 Thread Ives Aerts
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:00:41PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > The reason for the speed decrease you are observing is > that earlier mutt versions' fcntl locking didn't really > work. Working fcntl locking, however, will invalidate the > NFS client's cache, which in turn reduces performance t

Re: 1.2 slower than 1.0 over NFS

2000-07-11 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-07-11 10:32:37 +0200, Martin [Keso] Keseg wrote: >> Note that this cache invalidation is _not_ an error. >> In fact, some Linux versions incorrectly used cached >> data, which reportedly lead to mail loss in several >> cases. > Isn't better to test for host enviroment and make > decision

Re: 1.2 slower than 1.0 over NFS

2000-07-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:32:37 +0200, Martin [Keso] Keseg wrote: > Isn't better to test for host enviroment and make decision on result ? > For example use cache if host system is solaris or another unix with good > caching. I used to use dotlocking only under Solaris+NFS, and I *never* had any

Re: 1.2 slower than 1.0 over NFS

2000-07-11 Thread Martin \[Keso\] Keseg
Thomas Roessler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > On 2000-07-10 17:59:31 +0200, Ives Aerts wrote: > > > We are currently using mutt-1.0i on solaris 2.6. I > > would like to upgrade to 1.2.4 but it is a _lot_ slower > > than 1.0 when reading my mailbox over NFS. Compiling > > with --disable-fcntl hel

Re: 1.2 slower than 1.0 over NFS

2000-07-10 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-07-10 17:59:31 +0200, Ives Aerts wrote: > We are currently using mutt-1.0i on solaris 2.6. I > would like to upgrade to 1.2.4 but it is a _lot_ slower > than 1.0 when reading my mailbox over NFS. Compiling > with --disable-fcntl helps, but that doesn't seem to be > recommended according t

1.2 slower than 1.0 over NFS

2000-07-10 Thread Ives Aerts
We are currently using mutt-1.0i on solaris 2.6. I would like to upgrade to 1.2.4 but it is a _lot_ slower than 1.0 when reading my mailbox over NFS. Compiling with --disable-fcntl helps, but that doesn't seem to be recommended according to the FAQ on www.mutt.org. The same FAQ also claims that th