On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 09:11:33AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Monday, August 24 at 10:53 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > > There are 20 files some with as many as 30-40k messages. This ~/mail > > directory was copied over from my desktop box where mutt works > > flawlessly. > > > > mail_check=10. I'll try increasing it later when I get some more time. > > In other words, if checking all your mailboxes takes longer than 10 > seconds, mutt will be caught in an infinite loop of checking for new > mail.
Tried changing mail_check to 200 and it made a large difference. Now Mutt only cycles through the mailboxes once. The only remaining problems are 1) the fact that mutt still insists on reading a seemingly random selection of mailboxes when "^o" is invoked. This behavior is also random in that it doesn't always happen. On my desktop box it seems as though only the mailbox I'm opening is read (hard to tell because it's *fast*). 2) reading mailboxes is much slower on the laptop than on the desktop, maybe due to the differences in hard drives you noted. > > It may have worked better on your desktop box because the hard drive > there is faster and has more cache. Sounds reasonable. > > What type of mailboxes do you use? Different formats (mbox vs mh vs > maildir) take different amounts of effort to identify new messages in > extremely large mailboxes. Mbox is usually the fastest because mutt > relies on the timestamps on the mailbox file. Mbox. -- Bob Holtzman AF9D 8760 0CFA F95A 6C77 E125 BF90 580F 8D54 9279 "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer"
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