[Geary] Heavy disk writes

[Vaibhav Kulkarni]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org> wrote:
Andrea's thinking corresponds to mine.  In your ~/.local/share/geary directory is a directory with your email address.  Inside there is a .db file.  How large is it?

It's 131 MB. This is after vacuuming using as per Andrea's suggestion. I didn't observe the size before vacuuming.


On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Andrea Corbellini <corbellini.andrea at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm personally using Geary on a daily basis but have never seen this behavior.

However, Geary uses SQLite for storing mails, which is pretty hungry for I/O. Try vacuuming the database:

    sqlite3 ~/.local/share/geary/*/geary.db
    sqlite> vacuum;

This will both optimize the database and reduce its size.

I tried vacuuming the database using the above commands. I think the behavior still persists. In fact now I find the disk writes getting even larger.

What wonders me is that I'm not touching Geary at all. It is running in the background, as a minimized window. There's no email send or receive activity going on during this period too. Still I see this > 100 M disk writes from geary in iotop, and my laptop hard-disk indicator blinking continuously for 3-4 seconds every 5 minutes or so.

Regards,
Vaibhav