Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!ucbvax!TRANSARC.COM!Craig_Everhart From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: messages - a confession Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 22:39:26 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 I use Messages all the time for my mail. Am I an exception among Andrew users? For that matter, several folks at Transarc use Messages all the time even though ATK isn't officially supported here. When I had a Flames file, I thought that it slowed down the incorporation of new mail a lot. I ultimately traced the problem down to the fact that I was running Messages 7.8 (on a pmax), whereas the current Messages 7.14 contains a substantial performance fix so that Flames-based message incorporation goes MUCH faster. If your complaint is about message-incorporation time, try eliminating your .AMS.flames file and seeing if that makes a timing difference. If so, try building a newer Messages with newer source files. This particular machine is pretty rich, so displaying the next message is a pretty quick operation (or quick enough for me). It will usually be pre-fetched, and the ATK-related overhead of building the display seems manageable. I just tried a couple of tests, and it seems like it's a 1-second delay or less. (Fresh copy of Messages, file servers not that distant. Yes, this old Messages (7.8) also eats/leaks memory, so you have to restart it occasionally or it will really bog down.) Craig