Subject: Large folders take long to close

From: [email-masked] (James L. McGill)
Date: 27 Dec 1996 17:58:45 -0600

Even on a very, very fast machine, with a very, very large
amount of RAM, large folders (e.g., 2 months worth of linux-kernel@vger),
take a long, long time to close.  They open quickly, but when I want to 
change to another folder, it takes a very long time to close 'this' one.

I'm talking about tens of seconds for approx. 2500 messages.

--
g-r-a-t-e-f-u-l-l-y---[   email:<[email-masked]>   ]---l-i-v-i-n-g
d-e-a-d-i-c-a-t-e-d---[ http://www.conservatory.com/~fishbowl ]-----l-i-g-h-t
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was
	written and another for which it wasn't.

---

From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 08:43:50 -0800 ()

What version of Pine are you using?  What OS?  (I'll assume you're using
the default Bky mail folder format.)

-teg

---

From: "James L. McGill" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:04:44 -0600 (CST)

Pine 3.95 under Linux 2.0.27.
I noticed this as far back as the 
3.7x pine versions, but attributed it
to my slow computers.  

I notice that you mention the default mail folder
format.  Do tell... can I use Pine with MH folders? 
Can they be mixed?  (e.g., inbox can be the default
format, but mailing lists can be mh folders?)

Thanks!

------------------------+----------------------------------------------
   James L. McGill      |              NETCOM  Interactive
 Programmer / Analyst   |                 Dallas, Texas  
 <[email-masked]>  | -=[ http://www.conservatory.com/~fishbowl ]=-
------------------------+----------------------------------------------
Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be.

On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Terry Gray wrote:

> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 08:43:50 -0800 ()
> From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
> To: "James L. McGill" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Large folders take long to close
>