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 -- "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>