On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 03:30:54PM -0500, Rob Reid wrote:
> I think a previous reply had the right answer: maildir isn't faster than mbox
> for all operations. I also get ridiculous delays by just typing 'ls' in a
> directory with thousands of files.
That depends on the fs you're using.
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On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:46:10PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
> > 1. Switch to mbox and trade off individual mail modification speed
> > and corruption resistance for initial opening speed.
>
> yum. we use Maildir on our office mailserver so i've just ended up
> using this. it *is* pretty sl
Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Are there any tricks to speed this up, some caching mechanism or
> > something. I'm already using ReiserFS and maildir.
> The solutions are:
>
> 1. Switch to mbox and trade off individual mail modification speed
> and cor
At 3:20 PM EST on March 17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent off:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:22:24PM -0500, Rob Reid wrote:
> >
> > My freshmeat folder has about that many messages, but it only takes a few
> > seconds to open (never timed it), and I'm using mbox on ext3, so your setup
> > *should* be fas
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:22:24PM -0500, Rob Reid wrote:
>
> My freshmeat folder has about that many messages, but it only takes a few
> seconds to open (never timed it), and I'm using mbox on ext3, so your setup
> *should* be faster according to the hype.
>
> Are you reading from NFS, IMAP, PO
* Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-17-02 14:40]:
> This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > The patched version works very nicely. Opening the 3500 messages
> > mailbox took 79 seconds with the prepacked mutt. It takes less then a
> > second with the patched version.
>
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-17-02 14:35]:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:45:32PM +, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> >
> > 2. Use a maildir caching patch to limit scanning of new messages to
> > operations on a dbm.
>
> After a nice walk in the park I've spent the evening patching and
>
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The patched version works very nicely. Opening the 3500 messages
> mailbox took 79 seconds with the prepacked mutt. It takes less then a
> second with the patched version.
Guess I was wrong, then; switching to the digest wouldn't have bee
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:45:32PM +, Thomas Hurst wrote:
>
> 2. Use a maildir caching patch to limit scanning of new messages to
> operations on a dbm.
After a nice walk in the park I've spent the evening patching and
compiling mutt. The tricky part was figuring out which packages to
inst
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I recently moved to maildir/Evolution, but Evolution is still somewhat
> unstable. So I finally got around to be a Mutt user. I have to say
> it's love at first sight.
>
> One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to speed up the opening
> of very
At 6:12 AM EST on March 17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent off:
> I recently moved to maildir/Evolution, but Evolution is still
>
> One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to speed up the opening of
> very large mailboxes. My debian-users mailbox contains some 3500
> messages. It takes about 60 second
This one time, at band camp, MuttER wrote:
> >
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe
>
> And YOU, of course, will never request aid on this list, or present a
> query someone else thinks is inappropriate/unnecessary. I HOPE.
That was a
* Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-17-02 08:31]:
> This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > very large mailboxes. My debian-users mailbox contains some 3500
> > messages. It takes about 60 seconds to open.
> >
> > Are there any tricks to speed this up, some caching mec
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This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> very large mailboxes. My debian-users mailbox contains some 3500
> messages. It takes about 60 seconds to open.
>
> Are there any tricks to speed this up, some caching mechanism or
> somethi
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:12:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Are there any tricks to speed this up, some caching mechanism or
> something. I'm already using ReiserFS and maildir.
>
Oops. sorry, about that. I read the manual but I forgot to
google. I'll try the maildir cache patch
(ht
I recently moved to maildir/Evolution, but Evolution is still
somewhat unstable. So I finally got around to be a Mutt user. I have
to say it's love at first sight.
One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to speed up the opening of
very large mailboxes. My debian-users mailbox contains some 350
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