Re: mutt and ffs stat performance when starting mutt

2008-12-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:38:07PM +0800, David Schulz said that > If i now type `mutt` into my Terminal, mutt will take about 736 seconds > just to open up the Mailbox, displaying a "Reading > /home/ds/mail/INBOX...x/148800 (3%)". > `top` shows the CPU (P4, 3GhZ) working away at 60% or so,

Re: mutt and ffs stat performance when starting mutt

2008-12-03 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:38:07PM +0800, David Schulz wrote: > maildir_header_cache_verify means : Check for Maildir unaware programs > other than Mutt-ng having modified maildir files when the header cache > is in use. This incurs one stat(2) per message every time the folder is > opened. >

mutt and ffs stat performance when starting mutt

2008-12-02 Thread David Schulz
Hi, I am running OpenBSD 4.4 i386. I have a 20 Gigabyte Mailbox inside my Home folder in ~/mail/ in maildir format. Altogether there are about 148800 Mails inside. Yes its too big, and probably should be split up better, but it is what it is, and occasionally i need to search trough it for som