On Monday 01 April 2019 12:23:26 Michael wrote: > On Monday 01 April 2019 10:45:16 am Gerhard Zintel wrote: > > On Monday 01 April 2019, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Even though there are only 6 or 7 messages > > > in cur, that directory is 2641920 bytes long. ISTR that ext4 has a > > > truncate in place utility, but cannot now recall its name. > > Trying to add helpful info, > > My srv04 has “57041 messages, 57013 unread” in it, it’s dir size is: > > michael@local > [~/.trinity/share/apps/kmail/mail/.Sites.directory/.Inet-Design.direct >ory/.Servers.directory/srv04]# ll > total 2640 > drwxrwxr-x 5 michael michael 4096 Apr 1 10:44 . > drwxrwxr-x 7 michael michael 4096 Mar 28 09:50 .. > drwxrwxr-x 2 michael michael 2682880 Apr 1 10:44 cur > drwxrwxr-x 2 michael michael 4096 Aug 27 2014 new > drwxrwxr-x 2 michael michael 4096 Apr 1 10:44 tmp > > > That Gene’s problem directory for 7 total messages is about the same > size does seem like a big flag. > > Also this thread has sparked an unreliable observation: > > “The ‘Kmail 100% CPU at startup’ and ‘random multi-minute hang’ issues > seem to not be a problem for a year or so after installing to a new > disk.” > > I know I’ve had this problem on and off for the last ~10 years, if I > overlap the 3 SSD upgrades I’ve made during those ~10 years I come up > with that hypothesis. > > > Right click on folder ==> "Compact Folder" does help? > > Gerhard > > I’ve done this in the past, to no effect. Not that, that means I was > doing it on the actual ‘problem’ directory. There is also a top level > option to "Compact All Folders"*, which might be helpful to try as > well. > > * Right Click on ‘Local Folders’ >> "Compact All Folders" > > > Archive folder > > Like Gene I’ve never used the “Archive folder” option, but would be > curious what it does. Especially if doing so would index and lock > that folder such that Kmail then no longer indexes or otherwise needs > to ‘touch’ the folder again. Again like Gene, I could easily off-load > 100+k messages from Kmail’s need to bother with. > > Best All, > Michael > I'd have to agree with that new disk observation. This email corpus has now been moved to several new disks in its lifetime. Usually by softlinking the old disk to /var/mail/gene with fetchmail stopped, and importing it, folder by folder. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
