Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request

[David Levine]

Ken wrote:

> It seems, from what we're hearing, that the caching doesn't help as
> much as we'd hope.  The real problem seems to be the number of
> system calls to getdents() because the readdir() buffer size is
> fixed at 32K.

Oh yeah, Ralph brought this up last New Year's eve.
I guess my cache holds less than a year of nmh-workers
messages.

> >I'm not fond of -fulllock, but it does shorten to -fu.
>
> Ha!  I missed that.  I'll try to come up with something better.

Actually, I like it :-)

David