Re: [Evolution] High disk usage

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 20:26 +0200, Pelle Windestam via evolution-list
wrote:
> >         Hi,
> > can the received messages be large, like with some attachments or
> > inline images? Check size of those directories under ~/.cache/,
> > where
> > the folders.db files are stored. Then you can check the size of the
> > ~/.cache/evolution/http/, which is for the remote content, aka for
> > data
> > referenced remotely in HTML messages.
> >
> > I cannot think of anything specific what would cause such writing.
> >         Bye,
> >         Milan
> >
> > P.S.: by the way, Reply to List (Ctrl+L) works better for me on
> > this
> > list.
>
> Not really, I rarely receive any large attachments. If there are any,
> they are
> typically pretty small PDF-files or similar. 
>
> I located my folders.db files under ~/.cache/evolution and listed the
> size of
> the subdirectories in that location, and it was 12M for one account
> and 686 MB
> for the other. Currently evolution has written ~2GB since the last
> restart,
> which was just a few hours ago.
>
> I do not have any ~/.cache/evolution/http directory. I have remote
> content
> disabled by default, perhaps that is why?
>
> Very puzzling indeed. It would be nice to know exactly where all this
> data is
> written, but I do not suppose there is any existing way of doing just
> that.

ls -l /proc/$(pidof evolution)/fd

will show you every file Evo has open (many of which are sockets)

There is a way to get "live" feedback on file activity using strace,
but it's fairly hackish, e.g.

strace -p $(pidof evolution) --trace=desc|grep write

gives a flood of info which may not be that useful without decoding.

There's probably a way to use inotify to watch Evo's output, but it
would require some study to get right. And of course running under a
debugger is another option. 

> Thanks for the CTRL-L trick, I will try that (using it now!).

Not a trick but the standard way to reply on lists. You can also click
on the Group Reply button, which will Do The Right Thing (Ctrl-L can't
always be used when the message you reply to wasn't sent via reply-to-
list).

poc