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Re: startup slowness



Am 2005-04-16 19:03:04, schrieb Frederik Eaton:
> Mutt - as I have it configured, using maildir mailboxes - is very slow
> to start up. It reads through the mailbox at about 200 messages/second
> and then when it gets to the end it usually does it again. For
> mailboxes with many messages this is very annoying. It seems like I
> should be able to keep as many messages I want in a mailbox and still
> have my MUA start in less than a second with proper indexing.
> 
> Is there some configuration option I'm forgetting to set, or should I
> be using a format other than maildir?

"maildir" is already fast.
Maybe you should activate "header-cache" ?

Oh yes, opening 'mutt' and reading my lkm mailfolder takes around 87
seconds with around 200.000 messages AND "header-cache" VIA nfs and a
100 MBit network.

The same mailbox, accesed via courier-imap-ssl takes around 18 seconds.

Please note, that you can configure "set imap_headers" which speed up
the reading of a imapfolder.  "header_cache" VIA nfs will cache the
whole HEADERs.

> Frederik

Greetings
Michelle

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