From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 00:04:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22014 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22003 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:04:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA20563; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 16:34:40 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA19452; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 16:34:39 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980411163439.63045@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 16:34:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Thomas Dean , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emacs E-Mail Slow References: <199804110617.XAA04228@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199804110617.XAA04228@ix.netcom.com>; from Thomas Dean on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:17:09PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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