Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

Jörn Engel
2007-08-05T14:21:25Z

On Sun, 5 August 2007 10:53:54 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:21:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > btw., Mutt does not go boom, i use it myself. It works just fine and
> > notices new mails even on a noatime,nodiratime filesystem.
>
> IIRC, atime is used by mailers and by the shell to detect that new
> mail has arrived and report it only once if there are several intances
> watching the same mbox.
>
> I too use mutt and noatime,nodiratime everywhere (same 10 year-old
> thinko), and the only side effect is that when I have a new mail,
> it is reported in all of my xterms until I read it, clearly something
> I can live with (and sometimes it's even desirable).
>
> In fact, mutt is pretty good at this. It updates atime and ctime itself
> as soon as it opens the mbox, so the shell is happy and only reports
> "you have mail" afterwards.

For me mutt fails to recognize new mail. And the difference might be
this:
http://www.google.de/search?q=enable-buffy-size

Jörn

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