problem solved.
I spent some time today trying to isolate the problem. I found that there is one folder in my mailboxes menu that, when removed, stops the seizing behaviour. The only difference I can see is that all the other folders are <folder-name>/{cur,new,tmp} and this one is just a single file - and it's large - around 220M. So my guess is that the menu is periodically scanning the folders to update the count of emails. The former structure is probably just a directory scan and the latter would be a file open and parsing the contents.
Kev
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:59:18AM -0400, Kevin Baker wrote:
hi,
I've been using mutt-kz for quite a while now. In the last couple of days the command input seizes for about a second before completing the command. For example if I'm in my INBOX and I hold down the 'j' key it will zip along and then seize for a second before continuing. Happens about every 200-300 messages. Quite annoying! ;-)
I'm on F18 and yum updated a few times in the last week so it may be related to that. I uninstalled mutt-kz and reverted to the F18 mutt and confirmed that it does not have the same behaviour - works fine.
Anyone else seen something like this?
thanks
Kev