Re: [Evolution] regular maintenance?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:51, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 05:28, Not Zed wrote:
> > With the 1.0.x series the '.ibex' files can become somewhat fragmented,
> > leading to pretty slow performance.  You can remove these, but it will
> > take a while to rebuild them next time you start evolution.
>
> Ah, yes, the ibex files, now i remember that. Thanks.
>
> You mean fragmented as in fragmented at the FS level?

Not really - internally mainly.  Although fs level fragmentation might
play a part in the performance degredation (since the file is added to
in small chunks), most of it is because the code isn't very good (at the
way it uses the chunks it has).