Re: [Evolution] MailDir + unSYNC + Invalid Root on Evo 1.4.6

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:41, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:34 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > This is the case
> >
> > OS : Gentoo
> > Evo 1.4.6
> > Mailing List (~40,000 emails, 295MB)
> > Office Emails  (2088 emails, 533MB)
> > /home is XFS
> > Laptop Hard Drive (hdparm ~30MB/s)
> >
> > I migrated from Mbox format to MailDir format hoping that I would see
> > faster performance from this. But the results are that the opposite is
> > true.
>
> As I said before, 40000 files in a directory is a *lot*.  XFS is
> optimized for big files (like that 295MB mbox file), not scanning
> thru huge directories.  Moving to ReiserFS may help.

I'm using ReiserFS on my root FS. But I have some doubts on it's
stability. (esp when doing swsusp and hibernation)

I'm re-merging them into 1 big Mbox file (as it was before the change to
MailDir)

The other problem would be the Office Folder. It's 500MB in size and
it's one big file for an Mbox file. Each time, at logout, it would take
a long time to shutdown as it's re-sync'ing the mbox file. (it takes a
while to build up 500MB)

I thought using MailDir would help. This folder has ~2000+ emails of
varying sizes. From 1K to 15MB. MailDir  should be helpful for this
folder right? But it keeps hanging.

grumble..grumble...