Re: Very slow header cache in mutt if the maildir is on ext3

Tino Keitel
2008-12-17T09:10:29Z

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 22:25:17 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:

[...]

> I *thought* mutt had a patch which sorted the files returned by
> readdir() by inode number, and then opened the files sorted by inode
> number order; maybe it was a distro-specific patch that was never
> pushed back to mainline, though. In any case, sorting list of

It is in mutt upstream, and enabled by default, but only if
maildir_header_cache_verify is set. If not, the inode list is kept
unsorted. maildir_header_cache_verify is enabled by default, but I
disabled it in my muttrc.

Regards,
Tino