Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )
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hendrik@topoi.pooq.com 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 <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> 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.
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