Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:03:34 +0100 | From | Tino Keitel <> | Subject | Re: Very slow header cache in mutt if the maildir is on ext3 |
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:52:10 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
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> OK, after glancing at the strace output again, I see that the seek > offsets are much more linear in the XFS case, whereas they are pretty > random in the ext3 case. I guess that this is connected to the order > of the files in the maildir, which depends on the FS type. So this is > a bug in mutt which makes reading the header cache dead slow if the > files are in an inconvenient order.
Just for the records: I tested again on ext3 with dir_index disabled, and the cache was read as quickly as with XFS.
Regards, Tino
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