Re: Scaling Evo for large mailsets (was Re: [OT] Re: [Evolution] strategies for handling lots of mail)



On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 04:23 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 14:51 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
There is no exact solution that'll fit to everyone. Let me tell you what
I'm doing. I have more than 2000 folders and sub/subfolders and it takes
~5 min to start Evo on a relevantly powerfull machine (PIV 3000 MHz/512

Offtopic, i'm just curious ... How can you possibly have (and manage -
and have time left over to do anything other than move mails around)
2000 folders of critical mail?

On a more important note, how many total messages is that?  And how many
vfolders do you have?

I've been radically redesigning the way mail information is stored and I
guess I need to make sure it scales well this far and beyond.

Since you asked... ;)

Evo+IMAP seems not to scale well when folders get more than 5000ish
emails.  Time-to-open a folder takes an IMO inordinate amount of 
time scanning all the headers.

Vitals:
- Debian Unstable (up to date, GNOME 2.10)
- Evo 2.2.2-2
- Courier IMAP 3.0.8-4
- linux kernel 2.6.11
- Maildir folders on a reiserfs partition of a 7200RPM IDE HDD

FWIW, I have over 10,000 emails in my Evo folder (Dovecot IMAP on my
server (SME Server, an RH 7.3 derivative), filtering done server-side by
procmail) and access to the folder, on my old P3-500, takes less than
two seconds. Evo start-up, which needs to happen rarely, takes a bit
longer, but otherwise, performance is fine for me.

Des
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