Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

On Sun, 5 August 2007 10:53:54 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:21:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

quoted

btw., Mutt does not go boom, i use it myself. It works just fine and 
notices new mails even on a noatime,nodiratime filesystem.

IIRC, atime is used by mailers and by the shell to detect that new
mail has arrived and report it only once if there are several intances
watching the same mbox.

I too use mutt and noatime,nodiratime everywhere (same 10 year-old
thinko), and the only side effect is that when I have a new mail,
it is reported in all of my xterms until I read it, clearly something
I can live with (and sometimes it's even desirable).

In fact, mutt is pretty good at this. It updates atime and ctime itself
as soon as it opens the mbox, so the shell is happy and only reports
"you have mail" afterwards.

For me mutt fails to recognize new mail.  And the difference might be
this:
http://www.google.de/search?q=enable-buffy-size

JA?rn

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