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lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="tuning"></a>Chapter 8. Performance Tuning</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="tuning.html#tuning-mailboxes">1. Reading and Writing Mailboxes</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="tuning.html#tuning-messages">2. Reading Messages from Remote Folders</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="tuning.html#tuning-search">3. Searching and Limiting</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="tuning-mailboxes"></a>1. Reading and Writing Mailboxes</h2></div></div></div><p>
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title="Chapter 8. Performance Tuning"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="tuning"></a>Chapter 8. Performance Tuning</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="tuning.html#tuning-mailboxes">1. Reading and Writing Mailboxes</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="tuning.html#tuning-messages">2. Reading Messages from Remote Folders</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="tuning.html#tuning-search">3. Searching and Limiting</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" title="1. Reading and Writing Mailboxes"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="tuning-mailboxes"></a>1. Reading and Writing Mailboxes</h2></div></div></div><p>
Mutt's performance when reading mailboxes can be improved in two ways:
-</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p>
-For remote folders (IMAP and POP) as well as folders using
-one-file-per message storage (Maildir and MH), Mutt's
-performance can be greatly improved using
-<a class="link" href="optionalfeatures.html#header-caching" title="7.1. Header Caching">header caching</a>.
+</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p>
+For remote folders (IMAP and POP) as well as folders using one-file-per
+message storage (Maildir and MH), Mutt's performance can be greatly
+improved using <a class="link" href="optionalfeatures.html#header-caching" title="7.1. Header Caching">header caching</a>.
using a single database per folder.
-</p></li><li><p>
-Mutt provides the <a class="link" href="reference.html#read-inc" title="3.207. read_inc">$read_inc</a>
-and <a class="link" href="reference.html#write-inc" title="3.310. write_inc">$write_inc</a>
-variables to specify at which rate to update progress
-counters. If these values are too low, Mutt may spend more
-time on updating the progress counter than it spends on
-actually reading/writing folders.
+</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
+Mutt provides the <a class="link" href="reference.html#read-inc" title="3.208. read_inc">$read_inc</a> and <a class="link" href="reference.html#write-inc" title="3.312. write_inc">$write_inc</a> variables to specify at which rate
+to update progress counters. If these values are too low, Mutt may spend
+more time on updating the progress counter than it spends on actually
+reading/writing folders.
</p><p>
-For example, when opening a maildir folder with a few
-thousand messages, the default value for
-<a class="link" href="reference.html#read-inc" title="3.207. read_inc">$read_inc</a>
-may be too low. It can be tuned on on a folder-basis using
-<a class="link" href="configuration.html#folder-hook" title="7. Setting Variables Based Upon Mailbox"><span class="command"><strong>folder-hook</strong></span>s</a>:
+For example, when opening a maildir folder with a few thousand messages,
+the default value for <a class="link" href="reference.html#read-inc" title="3.208. read_inc">$read_inc</a> may be
+too low. It can be tuned on on a folder-basis using <a class="link" href="configuration.html#folder-hook" title="7. Setting Variables Based Upon Mailbox"><span class="command"><strong>folder-hook</strong></span>s</a>:
</p><pre class="screen">
-# use very high $read_inc to speed up reading hcache'd maildirs
+<span class="comment"># use very high $read_inc to speed up reading hcache'd maildirs</span>
folder-hook . 'set read_inc=1000'
-# use lower value for reading slower remote IMAP folders
+<span class="comment"># use lower value for reading slower remote IMAP folders</span>
folder-hook ^imap 'set read_inc=100'
-# use even lower value for reading even slower remote POP folders
-folder-hook ^pop 'set read_inc=1'</pre></li></ol></div><p>These settings work on a per-message basis. However, as messages may
-greatly differ in size and certain operations are much faster than others,
-even per-folder settings of the increment variables may not be
+<span class="comment"># use even lower value for reading even slower remote POP folders</span>
+folder-hook ^pop 'set read_inc=1'</pre></li></ol></div><p>
+These settings work on a per-message basis. However, as messages may
+greatly differ in size and certain operations are much faster than
+others, even per-folder settings of the increment variables may not be
desirable as they produce either too few or too much progress updates.
-Thus, Mutt allows to limit the number of progress updates per second it'll
-actually send to the terminal using the
-<
a class="link" href="reference.html#time-inc" title="3.290. time_inc">$time_inc</a> variable.</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="tuning-messages"></a>2. Reading Messages from Remote Folders</h2></div></div></div><p>
-Reading messages from remote folders such as IMAP an POP can be
-slow especially for large mailboxes since Mutt only caches a very
-limited number of recently viewed messages (usually 10) per
-session (so that it will be gone for the next session.)
+Thus, Mutt allows to limit the number of progress updates per second
+it'll actually send to the terminal using the <a class="link" href="reference.html#time-inc" title="3.291. time_inc">$time_inc</a> variable.
+<
/p></div><div class="sect1" title="2. Reading Messages from Remote Folders"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="tuning-messages"></a>2. Reading Messages from Remote Folders</h2></div></div></div><p>
+Reading messages from remote folders such as IMAP an POP can be slow
+especially for large mailboxes since Mutt only caches a very limited
+number of recently viewed messages (usually 10) per session (so that it
+will be gone for the next session.)
</p><p>
-To improve performance and permanently cache whole messages,
-please refer to Mutt's so-called
-<a class="link" href="optionalfeatures.html#body-caching" title="7.2. Body Caching">body caching</a> for details.
-</p></div><div class="sect1"
lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="tuning-search"></a>3. Searching and Limiting</h2></div></div></div><p>
-When searching mailboxes either via a search or a limit action, for
-some patterns Mutt distinguishes between regular expression and string
+To improve performance and permanently cache whole messages, please
+refer to Mutt's so-called <a class="link" href="optionalfeatures.html#body-caching" title="7.2. Body Caching">body
+caching</a> for details.
+</p></div><div class="sect1"
title="3. Searching and Limiting"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="tuning-search"></a>3. Searching and Limiting</h2></div></div></div><p>
+When searching mailboxes either via a search or a limit action, for some
+patterns Mutt distinguishes between regular expression and string
searches. For regular expressions, patterns are prefixed with
-“<span class="quote">˜</span>” and with “<span class="quote">=</span>” for string searches.
+<span class="quote">“<span class="quote">~</span>”</span> and with <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">=</span>”</span> for string searches.
</p><p>
Even though a regular expression search is fast, it's several times
slower than a pure string search which is noticeable especially on large
For example, when limiting a large folder to all messages sent to or by
an author, it's much faster to search for the initial part of an e-mail
address via <code class="literal">=Luser@</code> instead of
-<code class="literal">˜Luser@</code>. This is especially true for searching
+<code class="literal">~Luser@</code>. This is especially true for searching
message bodies since a larger amount of input has to be searched.
</p><p>
As for regular expressions, a lower case string search pattern makes
Mutt perform a case-insensitive search except for IMAP (because for IMAP
-Mutt performs server-side searches which don't support case-insensivity).
+Mutt performs server-side searches which don't support
+case-insensitivity).
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