Re: [sup-talk] Slow opening of threads?

From: Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@gmail.com>
To: Mark Alexander <marka@pobox.com>
Cc: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] Slow opening of threads?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:03:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287752134-sup-9563@blake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287750098-sup-8825@r61>

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Excerpts from Mark Alexander's message of Fri Oct 22 13:38:16 +0100 2010:
> Excerpts from Shadowfirebird's message of Fri Oct 22 05:23:42 -0400 2010:
> I have that experience with one of my maildirs that is in an ecryptfs
> directory.  It's not quite a couple of minutes, but sometimes up to 30
> seconds opening a very long thread.  I've seen slowdowns on ecryptfs
> doing other things like compiles.

Interesting that you should mention that, because I have an encrypted $HOME (bad choice at Ubuntu install time -- ::shrug:: ).  I suppose it might apply the other way around, too.

> So my guess is that the slowdown you're seeing is due to NFS.  In my
> experience NFS is a performance hog and should be avoided at all
> costs.  If at all possible, run sup on a single machine with your
> maildirs (and your .sup directory) on a local disk.  If you need to
> access your mail from other machines, log into your sup-running
> machine via ssh.

I think I'll plan to run something like offlineIMAP (or just rsync) to sync my maildir to a local folder when I rework my machine in the near future.  Also, I'm moving the whole house to gigabit ethernet, so maybe that will help.

> Also (and this is perhaps the most important thing), run sup inside a
> screen session so you won't lose any of your work if the ssh
> connection goes down.

Not a problem here; there's no ssh involved.  The maildir is on the server downstairs, and I've got my home directory there mounted here via NFS.

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