On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 15:03 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
Peter and Brian: I think you should reserve your angry complaints to your resellers, if any.
Huh?
Brian: Your bug report 582945, is one that requires quite a bit of work just to reproduce
Not at all. Simply subscribe to a bunch of news groups at gmane. Not that difficult.
You say it only affects users with hundreds of thousands of mails in their inboxes?
I'm not sure where the usability tipping point is, but let's say it is a few hundred thousand.
Would you agree that most people doesn't have several hundred thousand mails in their inboxes, even the ones that use email on a regular basis?
Sure, any that don't use evolution for NNTP as well.
Further, you complain about having reported this bug more than a month ago and that nothing has happened. However, look at your own bug report; you suggest that the developer subscribe to a lot of mailinglists and just build himself a large mailbox in order to reproduce this "sluggish behaviour"
Right. As I said, not very difficult at all, for anyone interested in trying to reproduce it.
You would have to subscribe to some fairly heavy loaded mailinglists for your inbox to grow to 418k messages in a month, wouldn't you?
No. These are newsgroups, not mailing lists. You subscribe to a group and instantly get the many (tens or hundreds of) thousands of messages that have ever been posted to the list in your summary database. Probably a single subscription to lkml (which I tried once but had to manually remove because it made evo *completely* unusable) would reveal the problems, but I would suggest creeping up to that kind of capacity with just subscribing a number of groups in the tens of thousands counts.
And then the bug hunt is supposed to begin.
For somebody that has worked the vfolder code, I'd imagine finding the hogs would not be terribly difficult. Oprofile would probably be extremely useful here.
I think your expectations are a bit high, don't you?
Look. I don't need your sarcasm. I simply asked if the scalability issues would be fixed by the next release, highlighting a possible usability issue.
Oh, and by the way: [snip] "...aggregates all of my newsgroups says there are 418389 messages in it with 418344 unread (i.e. only 5 unread messages -- yeah right). However I know the difference bet..." [snip] This suggests to me like you may have a buggy calculator too, or something.
Oops. It was 50 instead of 5. Dude. I misread a single order of magnitude while the real difference should be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude different. Why are you splitting hairs here? Do you really think this is constructive? b.
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