On 2001-08-21 23:02:13 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:

>While on the topic of Maildir.  I also just recently checked out 
>Maildir support in mutt 1.3.19i again.  And, well, I'm not at all 
>impressed :( To test, I've converted a 50 MB mbox with ~5000 
>messages to Maildir. Opening the mbox in mutt took about 9 
>seconds.  Opening the Maildir took close to 31 (!) seconds!

>Why is it taking mutt so *EXTREMELY* long to open large Maildirs?  I
>also checked out Evolution, and Evo only took something close to 10
>seconds to open the Maildir - but in Evolution it takes ages to sync
>mbox'es...  But that's OT here.

Did you do the mutt test several times, so kernel caches could kick 
in?

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Thomas Roessler                        http://log.does-not-exist.org/


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