On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:02:49PM -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote: > On Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:19 pm, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > Hi. I'm having a bad problem with mutt: it tends to hang whenever it > > decides it says "Sorting mailbox..." (any time I try to quit, change > > folders, or recall a postponed message). It simply stops responding, and > > only SIGKILL seems to kill it. My version is 1.3.28-1 from Debian sid; the > [snip] > > I'd really appreciate it if someone could respond, even if they don't know > what the cause or solution to my problem is. Thanks.
How big is the mailbox that is being sorted? Mine is huge, and even with 2 PIII-866, it takes a while. Open up another shell session and look at what's eating CPU and beating on disk. On my FreeBSD system, I'd use top and vmstat for this. -- Mike Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tired old sysadmin since 1964
