Re: Evo overhead (was Re: [Evolution] Connector GPLed!!!)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 22:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>     On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 10:25 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> >         On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 17:12 +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote:  
> > > tir, 11.05.2004 kl. 18.03 skrev Jeffrey Stedfast:
> > >         
> >     
>     [snip] 
> > > more economical clients (Kmail for a start).
> > >         
> >         In what way?  Our only overhead is indexes and summary files which are a tiny fraction of the actual message content.
> >     
>     
>     Well, I wouldn't go so far as say "tiny".  20-30% is my experience with IMAP-stored email, 
>     and 20-90% overhead on .evolution/mail/local email.
90% overhead?

Huh.  Please explain.

I'm lucky to get 5% for local mail and much less than that for imap email.

>     I must say, though, that it seems better in 1.5 than it did in 1.[0-4].
This is rubbish.  The files have got bigger in 1.5, although by a miniscule amount.  But they are definitely not smaller.

Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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