[OT] fetchmail slowing with succesive polls
Hello all, I searched web and fetchmail-faq but not the fetchmail-lists. sorry for noise but I think there are many fetchmail users here and I would appreciate a slight hint. Fetchmail polls the first email-adress very fast and slows down immensely with every one that follows. I see fetchmail working when I use the G command bound to macro index G !fetchmail -m 'procmail -d %T'\r macro pager G !fetchmail -m 'procmail -d %T'\r nothing special in my .fetchmailrc afaik. has anyone seen this behaviour? greetings jan
Re: [OT] fetchmail slowing with succesive polls
* Jan-Herbert Damm jan-h-d...@web.de [06-19-11 06:59]: Fetchmail polls the first email-adress very fast and slows down immensely with every one that follows. How have you determined this? Are you only starting fetchmail from the mutt macro or do you also have it running as a daemon? I see fetchmail working when I use the G command bound to macro index G !fetchmail -m 'procmail -d %T'\r macro pager G !fetchmail -m 'procmail -d %T'\r nothing special in my .fetchmailrc afaik. has anyone seen this behaviour? no for me, I run fetchmail as a daemon, fetchmail -d 150 I only notice when there is network problems or a site is offline. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.orgPhoto Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
Re: [OT] fetchmail slowing with succesive polls
Hello Patrick, thanks! Patrick Shanahan wrote on 19.06.11: Are you only starting fetchmail from the mutt macro or do you also have it running as a daemon? I am also running fetchmail from the crontab every 20 min as: /usr/bin/fetchmail -s running fetchmail fom the macro puts me into a terminal where the fetchmail program prints dots to mark its progress. When it is polling the second and especially the following mail-adresses, mails with only say 2500 bytes take approximately 15 seconds on a 6000 mbit broadband cable connection. whereas the mails from the first poll take much less than a second. The problem is not that urgent, since i don't notice it when cron is doing the job. Yet sometimes i want to poll manually and find myself waiting and wondering. cheers, jan
Re: [OT] fetchmail slowing with succesive polls
Jan-Herbert Damm jan-h-d...@web.de writes: running fetchmail fom the macro puts me into a terminal where the fetchmail program prints dots to mark its progress. When it is polling the second and especially the following mail-adresses, mails with only say 2500 bytes take approximately 15 seconds on a 6000 mbit broadband cable connection. whereas the mails from the first poll take much less than a second. Do you have the same effects when changing the order of the polling entries? Perhaps the servers are just slow?
