Re: File locking (was: Mutt 1.1.9 about 3-4x slower than mutt 1.0)

2000-03-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 18:23:11 -0600, David DeSimone wrote: > If the mailbox is only accessed from one machine, why is it on an NFS > server? Because my home is on an NFS server. This is the main reason. But in fact, I want to be able to access these mailboxes from other machines too, for insta

Re: File locking (was: Mutt 1.1.9 about 3-4x slower than mutt 1.0)

2000-03-15 Thread David DeSimone
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is safer for incoming mailboxes. But for archive boxes, that are > accessed from only one machine, it is useless. So, could the locking > mechanism be chosen from the .muttrc? If the mailbox is only accessed from one machine, why is it on an N

File locking (was: Mutt 1.1.9 about 3-4x slower than mutt 1.0)

2000-03-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:19:45 -0600, David DeSimone wrote: > Mutt wants to use fcntl-locking on the file. This forces NFS to use a > non-caching mode, where all I/O is transfered directly to/from the > server, instead of being cached on the local system. This slows things > down, but it is al