capacity/performance question about Kmail
From: Claude Jones (claude_jones_at_levitjames.com)
Date: 08/30/05
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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:53:19 -0400
I run several Linux boxes now, including two FC4 machines. I do all my mail
reading on them, now, though I leave messages on the servers and only
download to my Windows box for archival. (I have mail archived as far back as
early 90's) I've noticed a huge discrepancy in performance between Outlook
vs. Kmail and I wonder what others are experiencing.
Currently, I have over 20,000 messages on one FC4 box and nearly that many on
the other. Leaving aside the question of why, here's my observation/question:
With Kmail, my fedora-list folder, for example, currently contains over 13,000
messages. I leave my search bar open all the time. If I want to retrieve an
old post that I remember as having pertained to a current problem, I can
start typing in to the search bar and immediately, Kmail begins narrowing the
search options and producing a list of relevant messages - I mean immediately
- there is no lag, the response seems instantaneous.
To search a folder in my Outlook archive, even a much smaller folder, takes
many moments, sometimes over a minute, if the folder is 'large' - by large, I
mean over a 1000 messages. For this reason, I have archiving turned on, and
messages over 3 months old are sent to archive, but of course that then means
multiple searches if I'm looking for an older message.
So, my question: how large can Kmail folders get before they start to slow
down searching? I find this performance remarkable, and I'm just wondering
what the limits are?
-- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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