On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:54:22PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > > for i in `ls`; do
> > >   echo -n "$i: ";
> > >   procmail < $i && rm $i;
> > >   echo "done.";
> > > done
> > 
> > I still don't understand what was going on, but with this one it worked 
> > fine.
> > 
> > (for i in `ls`; do echo -n "$i: "; procmail < $i && rm $i; echo "done."; 
> > done) > ../log 2>&1 &
> 
> Not to say that this is the cause of slowness, but you may still want
> to change the `ls` to *.  This will save running ls, and opening and
> closing a pipe:
> 
> for i in *; do
> ...
> -- 
> Arcady Genkin
> Don't read everything you believe.

Thanks for the hint.
It seems, I was little bit tired. The second time it was running on the server 
where the mail folder was saved locally. Not on my nfs mounted box.
But I still don't understand, why it was that slow over nfs (100BaseT).

-ff

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