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. 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. > > I'd also be interested in reports of anyone using Evolution with large > > folders, or recommendations for other email clients. I'd be > > particularly interested in one which precreates indexes to speed up > > searches. > > evolution? that bugged to death thingy? Based solely on my experience, I could apparently say the same thing about Kmail. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
