Hi Rohan, The best mailing list to ask this question on is the kde-pim list. All the Akonadi developers read that list, but they don't necessarily read this list.
Cheers, David. On Fri, October 12, 2012 11:59 am, Rohan Beckles wrote: > Hi Gael -- > > Thank you for your response. Yes, I'm aware of Kwooty - in fact I use it. > :) Unfortunately, Kwooty depends on NZB > websites/search engines, and those services don't index everything which > is why I'd like to develop a more traditional > NNTP robot which indexes the headers on the local machine. I can then > search them, and queue items for download. > > However, you're right about sharing code. I'll be looking at Kwooty, > KNode and KLibido for inspiration - this will > be my first KDE project. :) However, the pressing issue is whether > Akonadi can handle a full header pull from a big > binary newsgroup. We're looking at around 5 billion headers from the > biggest group. :) > > Best, > -- > Rohan Beckles > > On Friday 12 Oct 2012 09:17:52 Gaël Beaudoin wrote: > > Le 12/10/2012 01:31, Rohan Beckles a écrit : > > Hello -- > > This is my first ever post to any KDE mailing list, so please excuse any > n00bidity. :) > > I'm in the process of planning an NNTP binary download robot for KDE 4.x, > something along the lines of NewsLeecher or Newsman Pro > (which are Windows applications). My plan is to use the existing RFC822 > Mail resource and the NNTP agent (if it exists, otherwise write one), > and feed the NNTP headers into Akonadi, so that the headers can be indexed > and searched. > > Question: more than a few binary newsgroups have header counts reaching > past hundreds of millions into billions. Is Akonadi (or more > precisely its MySQL backend) capable of dealing with that many records, > especially on consumer hardware? I'm assuming that the average > desktop has 4GB RAM and a single 500GB hard disk. > > Many thanks, > Hi Rohan, > > Do you by any chance know kwooty ? http://kwooty.sourceforge.net/ > It sounds like it does what you would like to do. I use it and it's > maintained, simple, fast and reliable. Maybe you can help the project or > share some code with them? > > Have a nice day, > Gaël > > > > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to >>> unsubscribe << > -- >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
