Re: Sending messages is slow

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.07.05 14:38:06 +0100 Olaf Frączyk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use balsa 1.1.4.
> When I send message with an attachment (~7 MB) (SMTP), the balse freezes
> for about 40 seconds,eats all CPU), afterwards I get dialog box with

that's the time it takes to convert a 7M (barf!) attachment into MIME 
base64 or something.
solution: don't send 7M attachments.

> "Sending mail" progress bar. Of course, when sending bigger files it takes
> longer :((
> 
> 1. It shouldn't freeze - a dialog with progress bar should be shown,
> what balsa do at this time (encoding?), anyway long time.

humm .. true. but spawning a thread prolly takes longer than processing
sensible messages so it would be a loss for most people.
smtp *is* threaded though.

> 2. Sending is quite slow (I have Celeron 466, 384 MB), and I send using
> SMTP on the same machine.
> Two balsa processes 24% and 15% CPU, one sendmail process (30%CPU),
> X - 11 %CPU, other - rest of the CPU.
> 

that is weird. once the encoding is cpu should be negligable as nor balsa
nor sendmail are making any real processing of the data, just pipping it
through.

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