Subject: Want advice on old Pine binary

From: Stewart Dean <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:27:19 -0500

We have an old obsolete soon-=to-be-replaced login server that serves Pine 3.95.  It was 
long ago configured with NFS mounts of the user home dirs and INBOX dirs (which are 
physically present on the Mail/IMAP server)...pine was configured to access them locally 
through their mounts.  About 5 months ago, after much evidence of people shooting 
themselves in the foot through multiple simultaneous access of the same data (some of the 
brass hats here have as many as 4 secretaries at various locations accessing their mail 
:(), I reconfigured it do use IMAP calls to the mail server and access problems were resolved.

Alas, at the same time, the access time got excreable...it now takes something like 30 
seconds to access a folder...the sequence of events goes like this:
1) invoke pine,
2) see OPening INbox for 30 seconds
3) get request for userid and passwd
4) see OPening INbox for 5-10 seconds
5) finally see inbox
If you then change to another folder, say sent-mail, there is another 30 second wait. 
Ditto again to change to another folder or back to the INbox.

I have another machine, the updated replacement for this which is not yet completely built 
up, but does have pine at 4.61.  It reduces step 2 to 1 second.

Anybody have any ideas why the old version is so much slower?  Something misconfigured? 
Or does the 3.95 code have problems long since vanished?  The 4.61 code won't run on the 
old box...old operating system level.

Comments, brickbats?

I'd like to temporarily patch this up before the peasants come with torches and 
pitchforks...within another month, we'll switch over to the new box and all this will be moot.

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  12504
[email-masked]  voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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From: NM Public <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:42:29 +0000

On 11 Nov 2004 Stewart Dean ([email-masked]) wrote:
> Alas, at the same time, the access time got excreable...it now takes 
> something like 30 seconds to access a folder...the sequence of events goes

This might be solved by my #1 Pine Speed Tip, which is here:

  <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#speed>

i.e., try setting:

  rsh-open-timeout=0
  ssh-open-timeout=0

If that doesn't work, try speed tip #2.

Good luck,
NM

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