Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 16:34:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emacs E-Mail Slow Message-ID: <19980411163439.63045@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199804110617.XAA04228@ix.netcom.com>; from Thomas Dean on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:17:09PM -0700 References: <199804110617.XAA04228@ix.netcom.com>
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On Fri, 10 April 1998 at 23:17:09 -0700, Thomas Dean wrote: > I have been using Emacs 19.34.1 for E-Mail. After processing about a > hundred messages and being on line for an hour, or so, things get very > slow. Getting mail from /var/mqueue/* takes a long time. It takes > 20 to 30 seconds to sort a hundred headers. This is a -CURRENT kernel. Please ask your questions on -current, not -questions. Yes, this may not be relevant to -CURRENT, but it may. I can't see any other obvious reason (one might be that Emacs grows so big that it's really "Eighty Megabytes And Continually Swapping", but it might be something more sinister. > If I save RMAIL, delete the buffer, and, read mail, things return to > normal. That points to memory size. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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