Re: [OT] Re: [Evolution] strategies for handling lots of mail

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

On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 21:15 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 19:01 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > Ð ÑÐ, 2005-06-25 Ð 14:51 +0800, Not Zed ÐÐÐÐÑÐ:
> >
> > > On a more important note, how many total messages is that?  And how many
> > > vfolders do you have?
> >
> > Approximately 30,000 messages in ~1.5 GB disk space (there are
> > attachments, mainly scanned documents). I have 8 vFolders, not much, but
> > enough for my case.
>
> Oh, "bugger all", i've got 250K odd messages here.  Just a lot fewer
> folders.


I've got a total of 363K of messages(3.8GB of disk space). 4 vfolders
which I hardly use. 6 folders with lots of mbox files.

RSS Memory is 180MB on load-up.

scanning of messages is slow during load up but after that it's OK.
(1.5GB of RAM Helps. But prior to this with 512MB of memory and swapping
~100-200MB, it hurts)

> > > 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.
> >
> > I don't know about the new features in CVS, but I'm pretty happy with
> > the present state (all my colleagues as well).
>
> Well, "redesign" means ... well, redesign.   i.e. 

What sort of re-design? Need any input??

One thing with vfolders. I can search for a message, but once I find it
I have no idea which folder/mbox it is in. Is there any way to
locate/determine that?


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