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 14:22, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 13:32 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > 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'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.
>
> ~/Maildir$ du -bs
> 164009427  

Office $ du -bs 
556002420
Office $ ls -l | wc -l
2084


>      .
>
> I'm using IMAP with Maildir, and it's easily handling 164MB.  The
> biggest directory has 12,139 emails.  Not as big as yours, but still
> big.

> You conveniently snipped out this portion of my Reply:
> > Of course, splitting that folder into subfolders (by year, or
> > quarter, depending on the volume) will also help.

And you missed the portion where I said, I'm remerging them into mbox
(~199MB) Which is why snipped it off.

> So, since super-large folders (whether mbox or Maildir) "hurt", 
> DON'T DO IT!!!!  How difficult is that to figure out?

Not Very. I'm mreminded of the hammer.

Now it's only my Office Directory (emails) which are MailDir Format. I
hope that it performs better.

(One way which I can have a shorter logout(using mbox format) would be
to make sure evo does not "empty trash at exit)

(BTW, is there a difference between Evo's MailDir format and IMAP's
MailDir(?))

and what's teh :2,S or :2,RS means at the end of the email file name?