Excerpts from Shadowfirebird's message of Fri Oct 22 05:23:42 -0400 2010: > Is it me, or is Sup sometimes very slow at opening a thread? I mean: a > couple of minutes to open a thread with two or three messages and no > attachments, about one time in three? > > It *could* be because my maildir is on the other side of an NFS mount. Or, > not.
I have that experience with one of my maildirs that is in an ecryptfs directory. It's not quite a couple of minutes, but sometimes up to 30 seconds opening a very long thread. I've seen slowdowns on ecryptfs doing other things like compiles. So my guess is that the slowdown you're seeing is due to NFS. In my experience NFS is a performance hog and should be avoided at all costs. If at all possible, run sup on a single machine with your maildirs (and your .sup directory) on a local disk. If you need to access your mail from other machines, log into your sup-running machine via ssh. Also (and this is perhaps the most important thing), run sup inside a screen session so you won't lose any of your work if the ssh connection goes down. Screen is useful even if you only access your mail from a single machine, because it will keep your session alive if Gnome/KDE crashes or you have to log out and back in for any other reason. _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
