From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 00:26:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26372 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26367 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:26:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA28813; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:26:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:26:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Thomas Dean cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emacs E-Mail Slow In-Reply-To: <199804110617.XAA04228@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, 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. > > If I save RMAIL, delete the buffer, and, read mail, things return to > normal. Sounds like a memory leak in Emacs. I'd suggest a different mail agent. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message