From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I7wSi-0003Qk-Or for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:51:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l69Go23H001033; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:50:02 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l69Gg6A8023012 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:42:07 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F457207AC5 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:42:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00960207ABB for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:42:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.10) with ESMTPSA id 24737017 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:42:06 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:42:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200707070928.24525.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> <200707071855.44663.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200707081032.32552.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> In-Reply-To: <200707081032.32552.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707091842.04447.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 079d4865-c8fb-49dc-abf7-789ce21e6dcd X-Archives-Hash: fce260043a5dc8c33b5ecd8322ddfd63 On Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:55, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > Second, Kmail doesn't seem very adept at handling folders with lots of > > > messages. > > > > yes it does. > > > > > I have one folder which has about 40k messages in it. It's the > > > archives of a mailing list I run and I expect it to grow much larger > > > relatively quickly. It's in maildir format on a reiserfs volume. > > > > that is your problem. > > > > > Just > > > clicking on the folder makes Kmail freeze for about four of five > > > seconds before it displays a list of messages in the window and becomes > > > responsive to key presses and mouse clicks again. If I try to search > > > for messages in the folder, the search will run for a minute or two and > > > Kmail will crash. Every time. This rather defeats the purpose of > > > having an archive folder. Is anyone else using Kmail with folders > > > holding thousands of email messages? Have you seen these issues? If > > > Kmail is working well in those circumstances for you, are you using > > > maildir or mbox? What file system? > > > > I have a 70000 messages folder - and several in the 30000 messages realm. > > > > If they become slow, it is time to defrag. > > > > Really, this is a fs problem. I like reiserfs, and it is very good with > > small files - but fragmentation is a real problem and slows down > > everything horrendously. > > > > Back up everything and run a mkfs.reiserfs. Restore, and kmail will be > > fast again. > > I added a spare hard drive to the computer. Created a new ext3 file system > and copied /home to the new drive. Mounted the new drive under /home and > logged in as my normal user. Kmail performance is marginally improved but > it's far from snappy. because ext3 is not really fast with small files ... > For example, clicking on the Archive folder displays > the watch icon for about seven to eight seconds before displaying the > folder. Doing a search for the word "gentoo" in the body of the message ran > for 12 minutes and twenty seconds and crashed with a sig11. Twelve minutes > to search 40k messages, and it wasn't through when it crashed. Ok, I let search run on my gentoo-archive folder which includes 3 subfolders and over 120 000 messages. I searched for 'gentoo' in the text. It took ten minutes and I got ~70 000 hits. While the search was running, kmail was slow, but usable. I read a new message in a different folder, switched back to the gentoo folder and read another message. Sig11? Maybe you should recheck your CFLAGS? And revdep-rebuilt? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list