Re: [Evolution] High disk usage
On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 20:26 +0200, Pelle Windestam via evolution-list wrote: > > Hi, > > can the received messages be large, like with some attachments or > > inline images? Check size of those directories under ~/.cache/, > > where > > the folders.db files are stored. Then you can check the size of the > > ~/.cache/evolution/http/, which is for the remote content, aka for > > data > > referenced remotely in HTML messages. > > > > I cannot think of anything specific what would cause such writing. > > Bye, > > Milan > > > > P.S.: by the way, Reply to List (Ctrl+L) works better for me on > > this > > list. > > Not really, I rarely receive any large attachments. If there are any, > they are > typically pretty small PDF-files or similar. > > I located my folders.db files under ~/.cache/evolution and listed the > size of > the subdirectories in that location, and it was 12M for one account > and 686 MB > for the other. Currently evolution has written ~2GB since the last > restart, > which was just a few hours ago. > > I do not have any ~/.cache/evolution/http directory. I have remote > content > disabled by default, perhaps that is why? > > Very puzzling indeed. It would be nice to know exactly where all this > data is > written, but I do not suppose there is any existing way of doing just > that. ls -l /proc/$(pidof evolution)/fd will show you every file Evo has open (many of which are sockets) There is a way to get "live" feedback on file activity using strace, but it's fairly hackish, e.g. strace -p $(pidof evolution) --trace=desc|grep write gives a flood of info which may not be that useful without decoding. There's probably a way to use inotify to watch Evo's output, but it would require some study to get right. And of course running under a debugger is another option. > Thanks for the CTRL-L trick, I will try that (using it now!). Not a trick but the standard way to reply on lists. You can also click on the Group Reply button, which will Do The Right Thing (Ctrl-L can't always be used when the message you reply to wasn't sent via reply-to- list). poc ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] High disk usage
> Hi, > can the received messages be large, like with some attachments or > inline images? Check size of those directories under ~/.cache/, where > the folders.db files are stored. Then you can check the size of the > ~/.cache/evolution/http/, which is for the remote content, aka for data > referenced remotely in HTML messages. > > I cannot think of anything specific what would cause such writing. > Bye, > Milan > > P.S.: by the way, Reply to List (Ctrl+L) works better for me on this > list. Not really, I rarely receive any large attachments. If there are any, they are typically pretty small PDF-files or similar. I located my folders.db files under ~/.cache/evolution and listed the size of the subdirectories in that location, and it was 12M for one account and 686 MB for the other. Currently evolution has written ~2GB since the last restart, which was just a few hours ago. I do not have any ~/.cache/evolution/http directory. I have remote content disabled by default, perhaps that is why? Very puzzling indeed. It would be nice to know exactly where all this data is written, but I do not suppose there is any existing way of doing just that. Thanks for the CTRL-L trick, I will try that (using it now!). //Pelle ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] High disk usage
On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 12:57 +0200, Pelle Windestam wrote: > So nothing huge here. Evolution is still writing a lot of data, maybe > 10 minutes after startup it has already written about 110 MB. Hi, can the received messages be large, like with some attachments or inline images? Check size of those directories under ~/.cache/, where the folders.db files are stored. Then you can check the size of the ~/.cache/evolution/http/, which is for the remote content, aka for data referenced remotely in HTML messages. I cannot think of anything specific what would cause such writing. Bye, Milan P.S.: by the way, Reply to List (Ctrl+L) works better for me on this list. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] High disk usage
On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 06:39 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 20:04 +0200, Pelle Windestam via evolution-list > wrote: > > Could the fact that there are lots of e-mails there be causing this? > > Hi, > there is a folders.db file, which contains an information about the > messages in all the folders for each account. This information is used > in the message list, apart of other things. That's an SQLite database, > I do not think they override the whole file, definitely not for me, at > least according to [1]. My largest folders.db file has 232M. > > Apart of the folders.db file there are respective messages stored, > those which you opened. For folders marked for offline synchronization > those messages, which had been downloaded. Once the message is > downloaded, it's not re-saved, the cached file is used. > > Bye, > Milan > > [1] $ cat /proc/`pidof evolution`/io > rchar: 3004641844 > wchar: 43846998 > syscr: 914029 > syscw: 112992 > read_bytes: 323649536 > write_bytes: 5922816 > cancelled_write_bytes: 0 > > ___ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list These are my folders.db files under ~ $ find . -name folders.db | xargs du -h 3,7M ./.cache/evolution/mail/847a0198a63c0b6b4b037e4b714cb91938896155/folders.db 11M ./.cache/evolution/mail/c3ff02a3a11ecce072da7e16bbd5b885dfb8aebd/folde rs.db 72K ./.local/share/evolution/mail/local/folders.db 4,0K./.local/share/evolution/mail/vfolder/folders.db So nothing huge here. Evolution is still writing a lot of data, maybe 10 minutes after startup it has already written about 110 MB. $ cat /proc/`pidof evolution`/io rchar: 122878766 wchar: 195699649 syscr: 233711 syscw: 203037 read_bytes: 4096 write_bytes: 112295936 cancelled_write_bytes: 12288 Quite mysterious this whole business. I shall try disabling one of my accounts and see if that makes any difference. //Pelle ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
