14 Dec
2019
14 Dec
'19
6:47 a.m.
On Saturday 14 December 2019 01:38:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 14 December 2019 00:27:53 William Morder
via trinity-users
wrote:
No noticeable diff, whole maryann is still 4.8GB
Thanks Bill.
On Friday 13 December 2019 19:49:35 Gene Heskett
wrote:
kmail does, I don't as a general rule. I'll see if I can do that, it
might just shrink the index files.
On Friday 13 December 2019 16:05:18 William
Morder via
trinity-users
wrote:
Stupid question: Do you compact email folders? or does Kmail do that
for you automatically every so periodically often? Mine is a little
of both; if Kmail doesn't do it, then I compact them manually.
Bill On Friday 13 December 2019 11:52:09 Gene Heskett
wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> So I picked the largest cur dirs, and using mc have moved
> about 2 years worth of each to an outside of the ~/Mail view
> of kmail. And nuked those index files, so it has to rebuild
> them. Its not done with that yet, but we'll see. Damn this is
> getting old.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
The complete corpus of my Kmail (including nearly 20 years of
archives like yourself) is only about 4.5 gb, and my machine is
built out of spare parts, most of which are older than
Utnapishtim's Flood. And while my machine is a little slow
sometimes, I never experience anything like you keep describing.
I started a year ago with over 12GB but my moving of older stuff
out of the Mail directory has now reduced the "du -h Mail" to
about 4.8GB. I've stopped kmail 4 or 5 times, but on the restart,
and that nearly always crashes once, but before it crashes, maybe
3 seconds elapsed, it has pulled all the "index" files out of
cache someplace I haven't found. So I nuked ALL the index files 3
times. Then it crashed about 2-3 seconds after startup each time.
A 4th or 5th restart has not crashed, and it updated the dates on
ALL index files twice, then has shut that off again. The largest
remaining directory now is "sent-mail" and its way bigger than
any of the rest by a factor of at least 2. So momentarily, its
behaving itself. 2 hours? a week, a year, the rapture? who
knows???
Its a bit like asking, while concrete is being poured, if it will
crack? Wrong question, not if, its when, if properly formed as a
question. :)
I hope to get myself an SSD to install as my home
directory,
which ought to speed things up for me, at least.
Haveing done that to the boot drive in one of my milling machines,
I can testify that an old pentium powered Dell, pulling from the
sata SSD, is a good 10x faster than when it was loading from
spinning rust. Amazing.
It is a problem of diminishing returns: you want
to have those
archives available somewhere, to find information that you
saved, but now the size of those archives is making Kmail
unusable. So I would say, keep pruning until it stops
misbehaving. You will still have those old emails available, so
long as they are removed to where Kmail won't look. They can
always be retrieved if you really need them.
Bill
Take care Bill.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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