* On 18 Sep 2014, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2014/9/18 4:27 PM, David Champion wrote: > > * On 18 Sep 2014, Mark Filipak wrote: > >> How is mutt with multi-mega-byte mboxes? Have you found that having tens > >> of thousands of messages in a single box is dangerous? > >> > >> Thank You. > > > > [473/130]$ du -sh /var/mail/dgc > > 466M /var/mail/dgc > > > > I only have ~25k messages in my inbox right now. I used to keep 50-60k, > > but now I turn a new leaf every spring. > > And you're using mbox? Not maildir?
Correct. I've used mutt on mboxes even larger too -- maybe 200-300k messages, a gigabyte or two in size. Not often; this is usually a temporary arrangement, like when I want to look at a whole year's worth of mail at once. But 25k messages is daily routine. I've used mutt for 15 or 16 years and I don't recall ever losing mail due to software error. Memory usage for mutt on my inbox: [477/148]$ ps -eorss,vsz,comm | grep mutt 41784 44280 mutt So ~43mb virtual, mostly paged in, for 466M of mail in 25k messages. -- David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
