On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:40:55AM -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote: > Perhaps there's another way to convince him. What's the system load > mutt imposes? My Mail.app is currently using 42 MB actual, 130 MB > virtual memory, which is a hell of a lot for email.
Below is the output of top while mutt is running (and looking through the Brin-L mailbox with 18MB of mail. As you can see, mutt is using 1.4% of 512M of memory. top - 14:07:12 up 18 days, 18 min, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 79 total, 1 running, 78 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.5% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 515228k total, 476372k used, 38856k free, 89232k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 267360k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6573 ereuter 16 0 10064 7064 4792 S 0.0 1.4 0:00.43 mutt _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l