On 2016-02-06 23:40:41 (+0100), Benny Kjær Nielsen
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 6 Feb 2016, at 22:03, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
I have 1.4M messages, and while startup takes a while it doesn't take
nearly as long as Patrik reports.
I've had reports about this number of messages before, but I'm still
surprised it works at all with such a number of messages.
Data point: I have about 1.5 million messages and MailMate takes
approximately 5 minutes (wall clock time) to start up. (Which is
approximately one cup of coffee, so I'm not complaining!)
I do have comparatively few smart folders (30-ish). Sieve sorts my
messages (generally by mailing list) into appropriate mailboxes
(approximately 200) server-side. I use smart folders mostly to group
mailing lists I actively follow. Most of them are of the "message is in
mailbox X" variety.
Everything in MailMate is based on these queries and with more than a
million messages then this can be slow on startup. It can also take up
a considerable amount of memory.
Most of my larger mailboxes have a few tens of thousands of messages in
them. Very few have over 100,000 messages. No mailboxes has over
200,000 messages (remarkably).
(I cannot really promise to make more improvements soon, but there
might be some simple things you can change to speed up the launch.)
Once MailMate has started up and is in the steady state, it seems to be
using about 3Gbytes of memory (which isn't bad, considering 20Gbytes of
data in 1.5 million messages). It also feels responsive. Even searches
in larger mailboxes are quite snappy.
Aside: is there a way to flip the "hold down ⌥ to search in the
current mailbox" to "hold down ⌥ to search in all mailboxes"?
Philip
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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
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