On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:50 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 14:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:33 +0800, Not Zed wrote:On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 20:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 09:22 +1000, Ian Mortimer wrote:Some people here are still using 1.4.6 and I notice that a few have large pop account cache directories: ~/evolution/mail/pop/whoever wherever com/cache$ du -c -s -h .evolution/mail/imap/me haggis/folders 250M .evolution/mail/imap/me haggis/folders 250M totalYes but imap isn't a cache, pop is!If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and acts like a duck... It's a header cache. $ du -a .evolution/mail/imap/me haggis/folders/INBOX | \ grep HEADER$ | wc -l 58305 Do those 58K files need to sit there for all eternity?Thats why IT ISN'T A CACHE. A cache has a limit, things get removed from it eventually. Things NEVER get removed from the imap 'cache', so ... it isn't a cache. It is more of a server-copy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache In computer science, a cache (pronounced kăsh) is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data are expensive (usually in terms of access time) to fetch or compute relative to reading the cache. Once the data are stored in the cache, future use can be made by accessing the cached copy rather than refetching or recomputing the original data, so that the average access time is lower. Anyhow... Is there a way to age off these files? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Knowledge should be free for all." Harcourt Fenton Mudd, Star Trek:TOS, "I, Mudd"
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