Re: [Evolution] retrieve mail times

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Yea, just delete mbox.ibex

mbox.ibex is a word index on your mail, ie - basically a very large hash
table of which words each message contains. As an optimization, words
can get added to the ibex, but for the most part never get removed
(removing words is a very expensive operation). Other problems with ibex
files is that they currently don't scale really well.

Michael Zucchi (aka notzed) has some ideas on making it scale a lot
better as well as being able to remove words from the on-disk hash table
in a much less expensive manner. Hopefully we'll have time to implement
it for 1.2

Jeff

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 23:28, John Weber wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 20:43, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > RH7.1, evolution versions since the middle of last year.
> > >
> > > I use fetchmail to get my mail from various servers and spool it on my
> > > local machine. I use pop to get it into evolution from my local machine.
> > > What I've noticed is that mail which has an applicable filter to put it
> > > in another folder (besides inbox) is processed almost immediately, while
> > > mail that is destined for inbox (no filter applies) takes roughly 30
> > > seconds. Anybody know why or how to fix this?
> >
> > Is your inbox huge?  That could slow down additions to it.
> >
> >    - Ian
>
> No, this happens with even just one small test message in my spool and
> nothing in inbox. I also tried it with "local delivery" instead of pop.
> There's a big file called mbox.ibex. What is that? I tried renaming it
> to xxx.mbox.ibex.xxx but it didn't help, and the timestamp on it still
> gets updated after mail retrieval even with it's new name. Should I
> delete it? Also the CPU goes to 90+ % during the retrieval time.
>
> [jweber ceora Inbox]$ pwd
> /home/jweber/evolution/local/Inbox
> [jweber ceora Inbox]$ ls -l
> total 20868
> -rw-r--r--    1 jweber   jweber        103 Jul 24  2001 folder-metadata.xml
> -rw-rw-r--    1 jweber   jweber         95 Jan 29 13:19 local-metadata.xml
> -rw-------    1 jweber   jweber          0 Jan 29 21:15 mbox
> -rw-------    1 jweber   jweber      43885 Jan 29 21:15 mbox.ev-summary
> -rw-------    1 jweber   jweber   21286144 Jan 29 21:15 mbox.ibex
> [jweber ceora Inbox]$ 
>
>
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>
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