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From: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: HPUX problems
Summary: /usr/lib/Mail.rc & performance
Keywords: 7.0.1 Mush
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Date: 16 Dec 89 21:05:00 GMT
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This applies to the 7.0.1 distribution of 13 Dec, on HPUX 9000/3xx
running 6.5 or 7.0.

A) The distributed Mushrc sets ALT_DEF_RC to /usr/lib/Mail.rc,
which doesn't exist in HPUX {6.5,7.0}.  Instead, HPUX has
/usr/lib/mailx/mailx.rc which could be used.

B) I think it is common (certainly is here) for HPUX to put its
mail in /usr/mail rather than /usr/spool/mail; if so, it would be nice
if this was ifdef'ed or otherwise automatically dealt with.

C) The performance doesn't seem real good.  Mush was compiled w/
6.5 cc & optimization on.  It  consistently takes over a minute
to open a mailbox with ~500 message in it (NFS file system) on
an HP-370.  It does seem to work, however.  A diskless 3/60 takes
less than 10 seconds to open this same mailbox, using the same rc
files &c.  If you know the 2 machines, this is quite a drastic
performance turn-around.  Anyone  experienced this?  Any ideas?

Michael Helm (Internet M_Helm@lbl.gov)
(my opinions only)