Gene Heskett posted on Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:35:12 -0500 as excerpted: > On Thursday 30 January 2014 18:31:43 Duncan did opine: > >> Vacuum internal storage > > 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?
For the record, OpenSuSE 10.04.4, correct? Because kde's only up to 4.12.1 (with 4.12.2 in preparation... I follow the 4.12 live branch and saw some commits bumping the version at my last update), so 10.x certainly can't refer to kde, which is what this list covers (tho opensuse does ship kde). On topic... I'm actually not sure as I switched from kmail to claws-mail some time ago (early 4.7 timeframe, when it became clear akonadified kmail was going somewhere entirely different than I was interested in following) here, but... Assuming restarting kmail does an automated vacuum, the effect would indeed be the same. But I think that's a bad assumption, as akonadi continues to run (at least it did back when I last used kmail/akonadi) if you're just restarting kmail. I'd guess it'd take an akonadi restart at least, and even then, I'm not sure if that would trigger an automated vacuum or not. Presumably there is some sort of automated vacuum triggered periodically, say every 90 days or something, as that's how I think most databases handle it, but whether it's restart triggered, or periodic, presumably on the first restart after the period elapsed, or when some percentage of dead-space bloat is reached, or what... normally depends on the database, and I've absolutely /no/ idea what sort of automated maintenance techniques are used in this case. ... Which actually was one reason I got off of kmail/akonadi in the first place. Email has been around a long time and isn't, or shouldn't be, rocket science, nor should it require users to be rocket scientists or database specialists to work with or troubleshoot it. And that's exactly where kmail was going with akonadi. =:^( I wanted an email client that simply handled email, reliably and consistently, and that's what old kmail gave me, but new akonadified kmail doesn't, so I switched to claws-mail, which gives me back reliable, consistent email handling with a nice gui once again. As a bonus, it's nicely scriptable and easily hotkey configurable, too. =:^) (Old kmail did have some hotkey configuration, but not like claws-mail does, and claws-mail simply blows away kmail in terms of not only allowing but upstream-encouraging script-based extension, with many third party scripts made available directly from the claws-mail site. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ 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.
