On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 4:20 am, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I subscribed to this list on May,2004. So far, I haven't delete any > message at all because once in a while I perform a search against it > whenever I need to find out about something (rather than going to the > redhat archive). > > I use Kmail on a Tualatin 1.4 Ghz, 512 MB and a 7200 RPM IDE disk. I > now have 24,219 messages on the folder. I'm NOW starting to feel it. > Although I was used to the 6-8 seconds it took Kmail to load...now > when I click on the Fedora-list folder, it takes about 1.5 seconds > before it shows me a message at all. > > What do you recommend me? > > Should I: > > 1> Buy a 10K RPM SCSI hard-disk? (would I notice a big improvement?) > 2> Switch to maildir format? > 3> Delete old msg's and get the habit of using redhat archive? > > Comments are welcome! > > Jorge Hi Jorge Do what I do, wait the 1.5 seconds. Really, I personally have the archive for that folder set to 6 months and that keeps it down to approx 37k messages. 1.5 seconds ain't that much and is much easier than your option 1. Option 2 I don't think will make much difference, but you can do it easily enough if you want to try. Create a new folder in maildir format. Copy all messages to it. This may take a while as it doesn't always copy messages in non-expanded threads. Then delete the old folder and rename the new one. You may have to re-create the filer rules though. As I said, personally I live with the 1.5 seconds. Gary -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000
