1 Apr
2019
1 Apr
'19
4:48 p.m.
On Monday 01 April 2019 12:38:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On Monday 01 April 2019 12:23:26 Michael wrote:
> On Monday 01 April 2019 10:45:16 am Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> > On Monday 01 April 2019, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Even though there are only 6 or 7 messages
> > > in cur, that directory is 2641920 bytes long. ISTR that ext4 has
> > > a truncate in place utility, but cannot now recall its name.
>
> Trying to add helpful info,
>
> My srv04 has “57041 messages, 57013 unread” in it, it’s dir size is:
>
> michael@local
> [~/.trinity/share/apps/kmail/mail/.Sites.directory/.Inet-Design.dire
>ct ory/.Servers.directory/srv04]# ll
> total 2640
> drwxrwxr-x 5 michael michael 4096 Apr 1 10:44 .
> drwxrwxr-x 7 michael michael 4096 Mar 28 09:50 ..
> drwxrwxr-x 2 michael michael 2682880 Apr 1 10:44 cur
> drwxrwxr-x 2 michael michael 4096 Aug 27 2014 new
> drwxrwxr-x 2 michael michael 4096 Apr 1 10:44 tmp
>
>
> That Gene’s problem directory for 7 total messages is about the same
> size does seem like a big flag.
>
The messages in there had been moved to individual year dirs at that
point, without fixing the problem, copied those messages to ../tmp,
nuked cur, mkdir cur, moved messages back to cur, problem solved.
Also this
thread has sparked an unreliable observation:
“The ‘Kmail 100% CPU at startup’ and ‘random multi-minute hang’
issues seem to not be a problem for a year or so after installing to
a new disk.”
I know I’ve had this problem on and off for the last ~10 years, if I
overlap the 3 SSD upgrades I’ve made during those ~10 years I come
up with that hypothesis.
I'd have to agree with that new disk observation. This email corpus
has now been moved to several new disks in its lifetime. Usually by
softlinking the old disk to /var/mail/gene with fetchmail stopped, and
importing it, folder by folder.
Right click on folder ==> "Compact
Folder" does help?
Gerhard
I’ve done this in the past, to no effect. Not that, that means I
was doing it on the actual ‘problem’ directory. There is also a top
level option to "Compact All Folders"*, which might be helpful to
try as well.
* Right Click on ‘Local Folders’ >> "Compact All Folders"
Archive folder
Like Gene I’ve never used the “Archive folder” option, but would be
curious what it does. Especially if doing so would index and lock
that folder such that Kmail then no longer indexes or otherwise
needs to ‘touch’ the folder again. Again like Gene, I could easily
off-load 100+k messages from Kmail’s need to bother with.
Best All,
Michael
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Cheers, Gene Heskett