Subject: Re: Pine pauses a lot
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas.Feddersen <thomas.feddersen@t-online.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/05/2005 18:48:38
Am 26.07.2005, 22:58 Uhr, schrieb Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>:
> Using pine from pine-4.62nb2 package on NetBSD/i386 2.0.2.
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> It pauses a lot. Sometimes I have to wait around five or more seconds.=
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> This often happens when I go to next message, save a message in a new =
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> mailbox, or other things that touch a message.
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> I didn't have this problem on old Linux system (with older pine). I =
> assume(d) the problem was that it was doing sync writes.
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> So I made new filesystems. And mounted with softdep. It appeared that =
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> this helped, but now I see it is pausing a lot again.
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> Maybe it is just to slow to rewrite the mailbox. I didn't have this =
> problem under Linux on a 486-66 MHz box with very old and slow 514MB =
> disks. My current system is faster and has faster, newer disks.
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> When it is pausing for several seconds, pine is in "nanosleep" state.
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> Any ideas or any configurations to try get pine to be quicker?
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> Jeremy C. Reed
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