On 2009-11-10, Robert Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > Mutt seems to change behavior from day to day. Yesterday it flew. > Today it hesitates after *every* key stroke, whether it's navigating > between mailboxes or within a mailbox, tagging a message, saving, > replying, you name it. The hesitation lasts for 3-5 seconds. It appears > to be reading headers but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure why it should > be reading headers when I try to tag, save, or reply. It even does it > when I hit "?" to call up a menu. Since I subscribe to a bunch of lists, > some of them high volume, it would take all day to go thru them with the > constant hesitations. > > I'm running 1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu1 on ubuntu 8.04. I also have debian > on this box but haven't yet had a chance to check mutt on that. > > Any pointers appreciated.
FWIW, I've never seen mutt hesitate after _every_ keystroke, but sometimes mine hesitates when performing operations that update the index display, as when scrolling. I discovered that this happened whenever I had one or more huge messages (on the order of a megabyte) displayed in the index. My mailbox in that case is my Unix NFS-mounted $MAIL file. Regards, Gary
