* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18-12-2004 20:14]: > This is NOT one single 1.5GB mbox file is it? If so, do yourself > a big favour and switch it to maildir. Or store all that mail in > an *indexing* IMAP server
Yes it's one single file. It's not my mailbox. Personally I could not work with it. There is so much mail that IMAP would be way to slow. Mutt is very fast once the mailbox is open. Reading and writing might take up to a minute though. > And make sure you use reiserfs, or xfs, or 2.6.9 ext3 with all the > hash tree options enabled if you're going to get 20000+ messages > in a single directory. I'll look into it. > But enough swap should make it tolerable. I will add another swap partition to see if it changes anything. Mutt is bound by a filesize limit of 2GB. Current memory configuration is 1 GB RAM and 1 GB swap. Is there a limit to how much swap I can/should add to the system? The points concerning the mbox file are taken (in fact I knew as much). Do you think that Linux might stop to respond or get stuck for a while as a result of the big file. In other words would the symptoms of an oom-killer event and the resource shortage before it be noticable for a longer period? Or would it just be a quick kill of a process and then everyting back to normal? Regards, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
