Re: Speed of opening Maildirs (was: Re: move messages at will?)

2001-08-23 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2001-08-22 17:01:40 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Also the load when opening the Maildir is WAY higher compared to the mbox file. Load when opening the mbox is about 2, Maildir is about 6. Okay, I've got setiathome running, so one may substract 1 (? right?). Ouch. PLEASE make sure that

Re: Speed of opening Maildirs (was: Re: move messages at will?)

2001-08-23 Thread alexander . skwar
On 23.08.2001 10:45:25 Thomas Roessler wrote: Ouch. PLEASE make sure that (1) swapping isn't necessary, (2) your CPU is mostly idle when you do measurements, (3) mutt (or, for that matter, evolution) is the only process which competes for disk access. Yes, I do know this. But, the system

Re: Speed of opening Maildirs (was: Re: move messages at will?)

2001-08-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Thomas Roessler« am 2001-08-23 um 10:45:25 +0200 : On 2001-08-22 17:01:40 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: [ mutt 1.3.19i ] MUCH longer, to be exact, it took about 2 minutes 30 seconds. Try a newer version. Someone has contributed a patch which improves mutt's threading algorithm

Re: Speed of opening Maildirs (was: Re: move messages at will?)

2001-08-22 Thread Thomas Roessler
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

Re: Speed of opening Maildirs (was: Re: move messages at will?)

2001-08-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Thomas Roessler« am 2001-08-22 um 10:23:05 +0200 : Did you do the mutt test several times, so kernel caches could kick in? No, I did not. But in Evolution it's also very fast the very first time a Maildir is opened. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote

Re: Speed of opening Maildirs (was: Re: move messages at will?)

2001-08-22 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2001-08-22 13:50:42 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: No, I did not. But in Evolution it's also very fast the very first time a Maildir is opened. Right after you read it with mutt? I'm not talking about mutt caches, but about operating system caches. Please perform the timing experiment

Re: Speed of opening Maildirs (was: Re: move messages at will?)

2001-08-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Thomas Roessler« am 2001-08-22 um 14:04:14 +0200 : Please perform the timing experiment with both mutt and Evolution several times, without doing much in between. Timing sheet: Mailer| Action | Time --+-+--

Speed of opening Maildirs (was: Re: move messages at will?)

2001-08-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Fernan Aguero« am 2001-08-21 um 14:57:33 -0300 : folders (I'm using maildir for all of my mailboxes). 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