Balsa too slow?

[Andreas Schmidt <andy space wh1 tu-dresden de>]

Hi,

I'm not sure whether this question really belongs here, neither whether  
it is just a problem on my side or something more general.

I've the impression tha balsa is very slow when opening large mailboxes  
or filtering messages. Just checked this: there were 106 msgs in my  
Inbox, 11 of which were new/unread. Took about 20 secs before filtering  
was complete.
One of my mailboxes stores msgs from a general Debian mailing list and  
contains at the moment about 7,000 msgs. Scanning that mailbox took  
about a minute.
I could perhaps live with it, but in both cases, balsa excessively uses  
up resources.

My system is Debian/sid, with Gnome 2.4 running on an Athlon 1800+ with  
512MB RAM, my version of Balsa is 2.0.15.

Any comments are welcome. Best regards,

Andreas


PS: Just found this line in my config file:
[filters-mailbox-0]
Mailbox-URL=file:///var/mail/pc
MailboxFilters=root@rocket\\ muell root@stralsunder-10 Debian\\ Curiosa  
Debian\\ GTK-Gnome Debian\\ News Debian\\ Security Debian\\ User ebay  
FMZ root@rocket\\ muell Trash Wired\\ News root@rocket\\ muell  
root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket 
\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell  
root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket 
\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell  
root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket 
\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell  
root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket 
\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell  
root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket 
\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell  
root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket 
\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell root@rocket\\ muell  
root@rocket MailboxFilters-When=1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Could this be an explanation for the long time it takes to filter  
messages?
Just deleted the "root@rocket\\ muell" filter and its occurences in the  
filter list. Filtering now took only about 3-4 secs. However, the  
repeated occur also seems to be result of a bug:
When I manually apply filters the first time balsa has been opened, or  
the first time after editing filters, the first filter in the list  
appears on the left pane of the dialogue. It appears not to be selected  
yet, so it gets added ad infinitum to the bottom of the list...