Re: [Evolution] Advice

["Andrea Dell'Amico" <adellam link it>]

On 18 Jan 2001 22:48:37 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2001 18:42:47 -0800, David Fallon wrote:
> > > and replace it with a better store, from a SQL db to a mini version of
> > > the Exchange Server store. Both failed, so Outlook will be stuck with
> > > this terrible store for the foreseeable future. And customers know and
> > > understand why Outlook's store suck so bad. If Evolution had a fast,
> > > reliable, 3rd-party-accessible and a non-proprietary store, a surprising
> > > number of corporations would be very interested.
> >
> > Can any of the evolution hackers address this? Obviously, as GPL'd software,
> > it's automatically non-propriertary, and I'm sure the conversion tools will
> > be in place to make it third-party accessable (in a worst case scenario, the
> > third party has the source code...), but specifically, what format is it,
> > and what are the expectations as to scalability/speed? Is the current format
> > a temp solution or the long term fix?
>
> I should have cc'd the list on this I guess...
>
> Basically, Evolution uses the Unix mbox standard format by default and
> can/does support other formats currently such as MH and Maildir. It
> would be possible to write an SQL provider as well, but we haven't yet
> done it because it's not a high priority. Mbox scales pretty damn well
> with our indexing in place, Evolution should be able to handle 40+ megs
> of mail without a problem (and I know it does because we've tested it).
> Evolution is VERY fast in this reguard.

If it can be useful:

$ du -s evolution/local/{Inbox,Link,org,people,private,technology}
2952    evolution/local/Inbox
76680   evolution/local/Link
11092   evolution/local/org
3800    evolution/local/people
520     evolution/local/private
120248  evolution/local/technology

I have 50+ filters and 3 vfolders, and all is working fast on a celeron
333/128 MB ram on a very old and slow scsi II disk. The actual problem
is that the mail component needs a lot of memory:

$ ps aux | grep evolution
adellam  25645  0.0  4.1 13764 5340 ?        S    Jan18   1:06 evolution
adellam  25651  0.0  0.0 10284    0 ?        SW   Jan18   0:00
[evolution-execu]
adellam  25657  0.0  0.5 12524  732 ?        S    Jan18   0:08
evolution-address
adellam  25666  0.0  0.4 12020  556 ?        S    Jan18   0:02
evolution-calenda
adellam  25674  0.1 33.2 115656 42476 ?      S    Jan18   2:08
evolution-mail --
adellam  25740  0.0 33.2 115656 42476 ?      S    Jan18   0:00
evolution-mail --
adellam  25746  0.6 33.2 115656 42476 ?      S    Jan18   8:11
evolution-mail --



> Jeff



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