On Friday 13 December 2019 19:49:35 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 13 December 2019 16:05:18 William Morder via trinity-users > > wrote: > > On Friday 13 December 2019 11:52:09 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > So I picked the largest cur dirs, and using mc have moved about 2 > > > years worth of each to an outside of the ~/Mail view of kmail. And > > > nuked those index files, so it has to rebuild them. Its not done > > > with that yet, but we'll see. Damn this is getting old. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > The complete corpus of my Kmail (including nearly 20 years of archives > > like yourself) is only about 4.5 gb, and my machine is built out of > > spare parts, most of which are older than Utnapishtim's Flood. And > > while my machine is a little slow sometimes, I never experience > > anything like you keep describing. > > I started a year ago with over 12GB but my moving of older stuff out of > the Mail directory has now reduced the "du -h Mail" to about 4.8GB. I've > stopped kmail 4 or 5 times, but on the restart, and that nearly always > crashes once, but before it crashes, maybe 3 seconds elapsed, it has > pulled all the "index" files out of cache someplace I haven't found. So > I nuked ALL the index files 3 times. Then it crashed about 2-3 seconds > after startup each time. > > A 4th or 5th restart has not crashed, and it updated the dates on ALL > index files twice, then has shut that off again. The largest remaining > directory now is "sent-mail" and its way bigger than any of the rest by > a factor of at least 2. So momentarily, its behaving itself. 2 hours? a > week, a year, the rapture? who knows??? > > Its a bit like asking, while concrete is being poured, if it will crack? > Wrong question, not if, its when, if properly formed as a question. :) > > > I hope to get myself an SSD to install as my home directory, which > > ought to speed things up for me, at least. > > Haveing done that to the boot drive in one of my milling machines, I can > testify that an old pentium powered Dell, pulling from the sata SSD, is > a good 10x faster than when it was loading from spinning rust. Amazing. > > > It is a problem of diminishing returns: you want to have those > > archives available somewhere, to find information that you saved, but > > now the size of those archives is making Kmail unusable. So I would > > say, keep pruning until it stops misbehaving. You will still have > > those old emails available, so long as they are removed to where Kmail > > won't look. They can always be retrieved if you really need them. > > > > Bill > > Take care Bill. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Stupid question: Do you compact email folders? or does Kmail do that for you automatically every so periodically often? Mine is a little of both; if Kmail doesn't do it, then I compact them manually. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
