On Monday 01 April 2019 12:38:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.dire > >ct 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. > > The messages in there had been moved to individual year dirs at that point, without fixing the problem, copied those messages to ../tmp, nuked cur, mkdir cur, moved messages back to cur, problem solved. > > 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 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
