> I have a SX164 system running rh5.0. I mount the directory having my
> mailbox is nfs-mounted (via amd) from a system running digital unix. My
> system has a 21140-based card and I am using the tulip driver. I read my
> mail in pine 3.96 and my mailbox currently has about 500 kb in it.
> Everything works well into when I start pine, sending mail works o.k. and
> everything works well. The problem is when I quit pine after changing my
> mailbox (e.g., reading or deleting mail). It takes a very long time (30
> seconds?) to quit. I don't have this problem when I read from other
> systems running Digital Unix. Performance on other file io over the
> network doesn't seem to be too bad. Does anybody have any suggestions why
> pine would seem to have this problem?
Pine has to re-write the whole mailbox. That takes some time over
ethernet.
Uwe
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