Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2015, 09:54:10 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > On Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2015 22:11:37 CEST, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2015, 07:17:13 schrieb Dmitry Smirnov: > >> Hi Brad, > >> > >> On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:28:53 Brad Alexander wrote: ... > > > > Thank you very much, I will try this. And see whether it helps with > > these upstream bugs: > > > > [Akonadi] [Bug 338402] File system cache is inneficient : too many > > file per directory > > > > Bug 332013 - NFS with NetApp FAS: please split payload files in > > file_db_data into several directories to avoid reaching maxdirsize > > limit on Ontap / WAFL filesystem > > > > Bug 341884 - dozens of duplicate mails in > > ~/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data > > > > > > I bet it may help with the first two, but third one might be another > > bug. > > > > > > Right now locally after the last akonadictl fsck I only have > > from 4600 after > > the fsck to 4900 files now in my private setup with still is > > mostly POP3 just a > > 30 day limited IMAP for the Fairphone and as a backup when I > > accidentally mess > > up with something locally. It really seems Akonadi is more snappy > > since the fsck. I have lots more files in there. > > > > I also bumped innodb_buffer_pool_size but didn´t see that much of a > > change, what helped most with MySQL load is to use Akonadi git 1.13 > > branch with database performance improvement. > > > > I now implemented the treshold size change you suggested and > > did another fsck > > and vacuum. > > *beware this is partly a rant, but I think a well founded one* > > In the end it I had mysqld excessively writing 150-300 MiB for about 15 > minutes or more, sure it wrote the *complete* size of the database > several times. I do have an mysqld where it complains about not being > able to get locks and suggesting that a second instance might be > running. I found this later one. > > I don´t think it had to do with the change you suggested, but with > another problem. I found it often enough that after akonadictl stop and > akonadictl status telling it is actually stopped, mysqld was still > running. I usually check this and do SIGTERM on it waiting for it to > end. But I didn´t yesterday. > > After a long time of writes I sigkilled the mysqld process in order to > end the excessive writes. > > I tried to recover from backup, but it didn´t work out. At one time I > created a second maildir resource and even after making sure I had > everything of ~/.config/akonadi from backup and also making sure there > are no other files in it with rsync --del and same for > ~/.local/share/akonadi and even after deleting > akonadi_maildir_resource_1rc from > ~/.kde/share/config it insisted on having a maildir resource 1 today and > it filled database and file_db_data with the results of scanning my > million of mails again.
After about half a day of waiting, and wanting to wipe off Akonadi from my system for good, re-importing filter I am almost back to some sanity. I am really looking forward to a replacement of Akonadi. I think it needs one. One with simplicity, robustness and performance as in only use as much resources as the task at hand really needs in mind. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2901284.TduDEhymTY@merkaba