how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Weingold
I have one mailbox that has A LOT of messages in it, as in quite a few thousand. It is in mbox format. For mutt to open it as quickly as possible, it is dependent on processor speed? I moved my mail to a friend's server which has some really old hardware, and it takes a long time to open this

Re: how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 07:49:54AM -0800, Ken Weingold wrote: I have one mailbox that has A LOT of messages in it, as in quite a few thousand. It is in mbox format. For mutt to open it as quickly as possible, it is dependent on processor speed? I moved my mail to a It's dependent on a lot

Re: how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread Derek D. Martin
At some point hitherto, Ricardo SIGNES hath spake thusly: It's dependent on a lot of things: hard drive speed, processor speed, and memory. IE: all those hardware issues. Much more drive speed and memory than cpu though, most likely in that order unless your mailboxes are HUGE and the

Re: how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:30:04AM -0500, Derek D. Martin wrote: At some point hitherto, Ricardo SIGNES hath spake thusly: It's dependent on a lot of things: hard drive speed, processor speed, and memory. IE: all those hardware issues. Much more drive speed and memory than cpu though,

Re: how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002, Benjamin Smith wrote: CPU does become important if you're using threading as mutt needs to trawl through the mailbox trying to match up threads. This is further slowed is $strict_threads are unset as it needs to play with $reply_regexp on every message. In my case it

Re: how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Ricardo SIGNES« am 2002-01-27 um 11:02:07 -0500 : I'd suggest using Maildir instead of mbox -- my experience has been that Maildir is faster. There's much less to worry about in parsing a Maildir Well, saying it so broad as you did, the only answer to this is, that your statement

Re: how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Alexander Skwar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So sprach »Ricardo SIGNES« am 2002-01-27 um 11:02:07 -0500 : that Maildir is faster. Well, saying it so broad as you did, the only answer to this is, that your statement is wrong. On certain filesystems Maildir may be a little faster than

Re: how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread Sven Guckes
* Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020127 15:55]: I have one mailbox that has A LOT of messages in it, as in quite a few thousand. It is in mbox format. For mutt to open it as quickly as possible, it is dependent on processor speed? no. mutt works independently of procesor speed. actually,

Re: how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002, Sven Guckes wrote: I moved my mail to a friend's server which has some really old hardware, and it takes a long time to open this mailbox, plus a few times it has simply stopped while opening it and I had to kill off the mutt process and open it again. check the

Re: how much CPU?

2002-01-27 Thread David T-G
Ken -- ...and then Ken Weingold said... % % On Sun, Jan 27, 2002, Sven Guckes wrote: % I moved my mail to a friend's server which has some really old ... % check the locking method of mutt and your machine. % % Sven [using mutt-1.3.27 - opening mutt folder % with 39,000+ messges in less