On Thursday 20 December 2007 09:15:15 pm Rodney Baker wrote: > Notwithstanding the fact that Beagle created performance issues on your > system, have you considered converting from MBox to Maildir format for your > mail? This will increase performance both in terms of reading mail and also > probably for Beagle (which probably tried to load your entire MBox file > into memory in order to index your mail). It doesn't have to do that with > Maildir since each mail is a separate file.
Hi Rodney, Can you believe that I converted maildirs to mbox just to increase performace of KMail. Before I had to wait for hours until my huge Mail directory is imported in new installation, seconds to open [email protected] folder and using Kmail wasn't joy. Now all big folders are mbox format and I have no problems. Kmail and Beagle do not load whole mbox into memory. My mbox is 5 GB for [email protected] alone, and with 2 GB RAM and 2 GB swap I would have system crash every time I open KMail, if it would attempt to read whole file in a memory. In today systems it is not CPU problem, it is hard disk I/O operation what is slow, and also there is big difference in speed between data transfer when data are stored in one big file and many small. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
