-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:44:03PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: >> On Fri, 12 May 2006 11:30:12 -0700 >> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> this is what maildir format is. A maildir is a directory with lots of >>> text files in them. each text file is a single email with all its info >>> intact. >> My setup (for a long time) (optional fetchmail), postfix - spamassasin, >> then what gets left in /var/mail gets brought in peroidcally with >> Sylpheed. >> >> Most emal sent to me goes right to postfix and then after spamassassin >> to either a spam folder or to /var/mail. >> >> Sylpheed keeps alll the messages underneath .Mail, one file per >> message, text format. >> >> I used to use KMail, which was originally set to keep all the mails in >> one huge file. Not as good, and for instance would never shrink the >> file when messages got deleted - the mail folder would just keep >> gettting bigger and bigger. My first experiences with trying to coax >> Kmail into handlnig messages better (one file per message) didn't prove >> very fruitful then, so I switched over to Sylpheed. Currently, I have >> over 51K files in there. I've had maybe over 70K at one time but have >> managed to delete a bunch :). >> >> On this box Sylpheed can get realy bogged down when loading messages >> into a folder that already has this many messages in it. Simply >> deleting a message takes a few seconds. It'll get worse as more and >> more messages get dumped into that folder. Perhaps, if some database / >> index was integrated, this might be a bit more livable. > > If it's not sylpheed looking at all the mail files, but instead the file > system that's having troubles, you might cocsider the reiser file > system. It is said to be really good at directories with huge numbers > of small files, being based on data-base concepts.
This is definitely a possibility. ext[23] must load the directory "file" into RAM first, and linearly(?) search for the relevant filename. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEir/MS9HxQb37XmcRAsGvAJ937+kyF5E2aM8aS+lytHK4zQpfggCgkqIV wcpUgQgKv93/uiMkcUWMKo8= =eVyz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
