On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:05:57AM -0800, Curt W. Zirzow wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:22:33PM +0100, Benjamin Michotte wrote:
> > 2 minutes 38 to open my in.mutt maildir (± 6000 mails) instead of 18 > > secondes to the same in mbox format !!!! > Wow, I knew maildir was slower but not by that much. I guess it has to > do with reading each individual file instead of scanning the mbox. Maildir isn't faster or slower than mbox, it just uses the filesystem in a very different way to mbox. I've had exactly the opposite experience - order of magnitude speed increases from using Maildir. Many of the more common filesystems don't handle large directories terribly efficiently, slowing down anything like Maildir which creates and accesses large directories. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
