On Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:55, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > Second, Kmail doesn't seem very adept at handling folders with lots of > > > messages. > > > > yes it does. > > > > > I have one folder which has about 40k messages in it. It's the > > > archives of a mailing list I run and I expect it to grow much larger > > > relatively quickly. It's in maildir format on a reiserfs volume. > > > > that is your problem. > > > > > Just > > > clicking on the folder makes Kmail freeze for about four of five > > > seconds before it displays a list of messages in the window and becomes > > > responsive to key presses and mouse clicks again. If I try to search > > > for messages in the folder, the search will run for a minute or two and > > > Kmail will crash. Every time. This rather defeats the purpose of > > > having an archive folder. Is anyone else using Kmail with folders > > > holding thousands of email messages? Have you seen these issues? If > > > Kmail is working well in those circumstances for you, are you using > > > maildir or mbox? What file system? > > > > I have a 70000 messages folder - and several in the 30000 messages realm. > > > > If they become slow, it is time to defrag. > > > > Really, this is a fs problem. I like reiserfs, and it is very good with > > small files - but fragmentation is a real problem and slows down > > everything horrendously. > > > > Back up everything and run a mkfs.reiserfs. Restore, and kmail will be > > fast again. > > I added a spare hard drive to the computer. Created a new ext3 file system > and copied /home to the new drive. Mounted the new drive under /home and > logged in as my normal user. Kmail performance is marginally improved but > it's far from snappy.
because ext3 is not really fast with small files ... > For example, clicking on the Archive folder displays > the watch icon for about seven to eight seconds before displaying the > folder. Doing a search for the word "gentoo" in the body of the message ran > for 12 minutes and twenty seconds and crashed with a sig11. Twelve minutes > to search 40k messages, and it wasn't through when it crashed. Ok, I let search run on my gentoo-archive folder which includes 3 subfolders and over 120 000 messages. I searched for 'gentoo' in the text. It took ten minutes and I got ~70 000 hits. While the search was running, kmail was slow, but usable. I read a new message in a different folder, switched back to the gentoo folder and read another message. Sig11? Maybe you should recheck your CFLAGS? And revdep-rebuilt? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
