Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-04-09 6:53 GMT+02:00 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com: Mutt, as with other MUAs, creates a header cache so it only needs to read the headers of new mail files. If you're slowing down with large maildir folders, the most likely problem is that your header caching is not working

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 9 Apr 2014, at 07:19, Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: There a set header_cache option to add in muttrc. Yes turn that on. It makes a big difference. Consider also archiving older mail to a compressed mbox via the archivemail tool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 08:19:09AM CEST, Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com said: 2014-04-09 6:53 GMT+02:00 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com: Mutt, as with other MUAs, creates a header cache so it only needs to read the headers of new mail files. If you're slowing down with

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 08 apr 14, 22:47:05, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Of late, I've observed that folders with over 1000 messages seem quite slow to respond (order of 3-4 seconds), which wasn't really happening in the old days when I was using mboxes. I get at most 2-3 seconds with 12000+ messages Maildirs :)

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Steve
I've seen that mutt was faster when using a locl imap server, with header_cache and tokyocabinet as a db lib, than with same setting and direct maildir access. I wrote a console-based mail-client, with lua scripting, modelled upon mutt: http://lumail.org/ Although it is unlikely I

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:34:17AM +0100, Steve wrote: http://lumail.org/ Although it is unlikely I wonder if anybody here has tested it under ext4? I'd never heard of it, but thanks for sharing, it looks interesting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:29:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 08 apr 14, 22:47:05, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Of late, I've observed that folders with over 1000 messages seem quite slow to respond (order of 3-4 seconds), which wasn't really happening in the old days when I was using

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:53:52PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: As with any MUA directly accessing maildir files performance gradually slows down over time with more and more mail files because they are scattered across the filesystem, especially with EXT, much less so with XFS. Seeking to

Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian User, Of late, I've observed that opening my Maildir boxes in Mutt has been a tad slow. Here is the rough structure: I have an LVM home directory (ext4), within which I have a folder called ~/Maildir. This folder has several Maildirs, say inbox, debian-user etc., each of which gets

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/8/2014 9:47 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian User, Of late, I've observed that opening my Maildir boxes in Mutt has been a tad slow. Here is the rough structure: I have an LVM home directory (ext4), within which I have a folder called ~/Maildir. This folder has several Maildirs,