On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:59:36PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 03Jan2020 09:32, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > I'll do some more tracing and see if I can see mutt working hard in > > any of the more obvious places. Maybe if I hit keys as fast as I can > > so that the waiting for character read() doesn't see any delay I might > > be able to see where the time goes. > > Matthias suggested this: > > strace -o tr -tt mutt .... > > If you want less log to deal with you can strace a process from outside: > > strace -o tr -tt -p pid-of-mutt > > That would let you fire it up just before the action (change mailbox) which > you know contains the delay. Might get you a better targeted log. > Yes, that's a good idea, thank you.
-- Chris Green