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On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:55, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > Second, Kmail doesn't seem very adept at handling folders with lots of |
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> > messages. |
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> yes it does. |
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> > I have one folder which has about 40k messages in it. It's the |
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> > archives of a mailing list I run and I expect it to grow much larger |
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> > relatively quickly. It's in maildir format on a reiserfs volume. |
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> that is your problem. |
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> > Just |
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> > clicking on the folder makes Kmail freeze for about four of five seconds |
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> > before it displays a list of messages in the window and becomes |
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> > responsive to key presses and mouse clicks again. If I try to search for |
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> > messages in the folder, the search will run for a minute or two and Kmail |
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> > will crash. Every time. This rather defeats the purpose of having an |
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> > archive folder. Is anyone else using Kmail with folders holding thousands |
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> > of email messages? Have you seen these issues? If Kmail is working well |
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> > in those circumstances for you, are you using maildir or mbox? What file |
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> > system? |
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> I have a 70000 messages folder - and several in the 30000 messages realm. |
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> If they become slow, it is time to defrag. |
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> Really, this is a fs problem. I like reiserfs, and it is very good with |
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> small files - but fragmentation is a real problem and slows down everything |
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> horrendously. |
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> Back up everything and run a mkfs.reiserfs. Restore, and kmail will be fast |
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> again. |
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I added a spare hard drive to the computer. Created a new ext3 file system |
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and copied /home to the new drive. Mounted the new drive under /home and |
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logged in as my normal user. Kmail performance is marginally improved but |
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it's far from snappy. For example, clicking on the Archive folder displays |
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the watch icon for about seven to eight seconds before displaying the folder. |
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Doing a search for the word "gentoo" in the body of the message ran for 12 |
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minutes and twenty seconds and crashed with a sig11. Twelve minutes to |
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search 40k messages, and it wasn't through when it crashed. |
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> > I'd also be interested in reports of anyone using Evolution with large |
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> > folders, or recommendations for other email clients. I'd be |
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> > particularly interested in one which precreates indexes to speed up |
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> > searches. |
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> evolution? that bugged to death thingy? |
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Based solely on my experience, I could apparently say the same thing about |
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Kmail. |
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