On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 08:02 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 21:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Your BZ report talks about issues with large newsgroups. > > Indeed. > > > Are you seeing > > the same with large mail folders? > > I don't have any/enough mail folders that compete with the quantity/size > of newsgroups. > > > I have one IMAP folder with over > > 60,000 messages in it and I don't see any sluggishness (maybe a few > > seconds on startup), > > That's not surprising then. Not that I trust the message counts much > anymore (since the sqlite migration fiasco), but the vfolder that > aggregates all of my newsgroups says there are 418389 messages in it > with 418344 unread (i.e. only 5 unread messages -- yeah right). However > I know the difference between read and unread messages is in reality > much much greater than that. Case in point for not trusting the message > count numbers any more. But I digress on to yet another bug. > > Performance in an individual (real) folder is great. Switching from > message to message is quick. It's in vfolders which represent a large > aggregation where the message-to-message performance is sluggish, and of > course, as I have said, startup times after a crash (which is still too > frequent an occurrence unfortunately) is on the order of close to 10 > minutes if not more and when I strace it, it's all reads/writes to the > sqlite db(s). > > > but I don't use Evo for newsgroups. > > You should try it sometime if you want to see the scaling problems. > > I use gmane and nntp for mailing lists instead of getting the mail > delivered here. Doing that really highlights the scaling problems. > > IMHO, the evo developers (especially the ones responsible for its > scalability) should be *required* to use gmane for all of their mailing > lists. Nothing like having to eat your own dogfood to making it taste > good. Some of the vfolder issues and sqlite summary issues have been covered at, http://www.go-evolution.org/Bugzilla_Topics#evolution.5Bdisk-summary.5D
They are part of the road-map http://www.go-evolution.org/Evo2.28 and is being worked upon. But am not sure how many would be fixed for 2.28. Thanks, Chenthill. > > b. > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
