On Thursday 30 January 2014 21:39 Duncan wrote: > > I did not know akonadictl had that option! Will try it as soon as I get > > back. > > > > > > > > I now see that it also has a 'vacuum' option, but the help text just > > says "Vacuum internal storage". Do you have any idea what it does? > > Active databases (and filesystems, which work similarly) typically create > and delete a lot of records/files. Akonadi deals with messaging, so > consider email and IM messages as they come in, with a lot of them being > spam and thus often deleted. But for performance reasons most databases > and filesystems don't normally entirely wipe all those deleted records > (files) at the time of deletion; they simply mark them as deleted in > their index(s) somewhere and continue.
Thanks for the very detailed explanation Duncan. I wasn't familiar with the "vacuuming" term, but the assumptions I made seemed to be right. In another matter, @Gene: > Interesting Duncan, but my old 10.04.4 LTS version of it doesn't seem to > recognize that and doesn't do anything but throw a help screen, so I have > to stop, and restart kmail at least daily or it just gets slower and > slower. I assume the effect is the same? "but my old 10.04.4 LTS version" Gene, old lad, you're one LTS behind. I appreciate conservatism to a certain degree, but you really need to upgrade. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards Thomas Tanghus ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
