On Saturday 14 December 2019 00:27:53 William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > On Friday 13 December 2019 19:49:35 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 13 December 2019 16:05:18 William Morder via trinity-users > > > > wrote: > > > On Friday 13 December 2019 11:52:09 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > So I picked the largest cur dirs, and using mc have moved about > > > > 2 years worth of each to an outside of the ~/Mail view of kmail. > > > > And nuked those index files, so it has to rebuild them. Its not > > > > done with that yet, but we'll see. Damn this is getting old. > > > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > > > The complete corpus of my Kmail (including nearly 20 years of > > > archives like yourself) is only about 4.5 gb, and my machine is > > > built out of spare parts, most of which are older than > > > Utnapishtim's Flood. And while my machine is a little slow > > > sometimes, I never experience anything like you keep describing. > > > > I started a year ago with over 12GB but my moving of older stuff out > > of the Mail directory has now reduced the "du -h Mail" to about > > 4.8GB. I've stopped kmail 4 or 5 times, but on the restart, and that > > nearly always crashes once, but before it crashes, maybe 3 seconds > > elapsed, it has pulled all the "index" files out of cache someplace > > I haven't found. So I nuked ALL the index files 3 times. Then it > > crashed about 2-3 seconds after startup each time. > > > > A 4th or 5th restart has not crashed, and it updated the dates on > > ALL index files twice, then has shut that off again. The largest > > remaining directory now is "sent-mail" and its way bigger than any > > of the rest by a factor of at least 2. So momentarily, its behaving > > itself. 2 hours? a week, a year, the rapture? who knows??? > > > > Its a bit like asking, while concrete is being poured, if it will > > crack? Wrong question, not if, its when, if properly formed as a > > question. :) > > > > > I hope to get myself an SSD to install as my home directory, which > > > ought to speed things up for me, at least. > > > > Haveing done that to the boot drive in one of my milling machines, I > > can testify that an old pentium powered Dell, pulling from the sata > > SSD, is a good 10x faster than when it was loading from spinning > > rust. Amazing. > > > > > It is a problem of diminishing returns: you want to have those > > > archives available somewhere, to find information that you saved, > > > but now the size of those archives is making Kmail unusable. So I > > > would say, keep pruning until it stops misbehaving. You will still > > > have those old emails available, so long as they are removed to > > > where Kmail won't look. They can always be retrieved if you really > > > need them. > > > > > > Bill > > > > Take care Bill. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Stupid question: Do you compact email folders? or does Kmail do that > for you automatically every so periodically often? Mine is a little of > both; if Kmail doesn't do it, then I compact them manually. > > Bill > kmail does, I don't as a general rule. I'll see if I can do that, it might just shrink the index files. Thanks Bill. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>