Yea, just delete mbox.ibex mbox.ibex is a word index on your mail, ie - basically a very large hash table of which words each message contains. As an optimization, words can get added to the ibex, but for the most part never get removed (removing words is a very expensive operation). Other problems with ibex files is that they currently don't scale really well.
Michael Zucchi (aka notzed) has some ideas on making it scale a lot better as well as being able to remove words from the on-disk hash table in a much less expensive manner. Hopefully we'll have time to implement it for 1.2 Jeff On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 23:28, John Weber wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 20:43, Ian Goldberg wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > RH7.1, evolution versions since the middle of last year. > > > > > > I use fetchmail to get my mail from various servers and spool it on my > > > local machine. I use pop to get it into evolution from my local machine. > > > What I've noticed is that mail which has an applicable filter to put it > > > in another folder (besides inbox) is processed almost immediately, while > > > mail that is destined for inbox (no filter applies) takes roughly 30 > > > seconds. Anybody know why or how to fix this? > > > > Is your inbox huge? That could slow down additions to it. > > > > - Ian > > > > No, this happens with even just one small test message in my spool and > nothing in inbox. I also tried it with "local delivery" instead of pop. > There's a big file called mbox.ibex. What is that? I tried renaming it > to xxx.mbox.ibex.xxx but it didn't help, and the timestamp on it still > gets updated after mail retrieval even with it's new name. Should I > delete it? Also the CPU goes to 90+ % during the retrieval time. > > [jweber@ceora Inbox]$ pwd > /home/jweber/evolution/local/Inbox > [jweber@ceora Inbox]$ ls -l > total 20868 > -rw-r--r-- 1 jweber jweber 103 Jul 24 2001 folder-metadata.xml > -rw-rw-r-- 1 jweber jweber 95 Jan 29 13:19 local-metadata.xml > -rw------- 1 jweber jweber 0 Jan 29 21:15 mbox > -rw------- 1 jweber jweber 43885 Jan 29 21:15 mbox.ev-summary > -rw------- 1 jweber jweber 21286144 Jan 29 21:15 mbox.ibex > [jweber@ceora Inbox]$ > > > -- > John S. Weber > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
