[Techtalk] mutt is trying to drive me crazy ...

[jennyw]

No, the people on the mutt mailing list acknowledge it's an issue. 
There's a caching patch, but what I'd really like would be a separate
thread or process to read the headers.

Jen

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 19:37, Mary wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 07:30:10PM -0800, jennyw wrote:
> > Both of them have performance issues when dealing with 10,000+
> > messages, but so do a lot of other programs (IMP is the only IMAP
> > client I know of that's smart enough to get only the headers it needs
> > instead of all of them at once). Evolution has caching, which almost
> > makes up for it.
> 
> It is also possible that the speed that Linux is accessing your hard
> drive (although if you have an IMAP mailbox this might not be the case),
> is the problem.
> 
> Linux sets much more conservative defaults for hard drive settings than
> Windows does. It is possible to change these with the program 'hdparm' I
> believe, but I never have, so be cautious :)
> 
> -Mary.
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