14 Dec
2019
14 Dec
'19
5:27 a.m.
On Friday 13 December 2019 19:49:35 Gene Heskett wrote:
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:
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. :)
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 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