Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3263 mails)

[Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 21 December 2007 06:15:54 Gary Baribault wrote:
> > OK, here's the issue: you're not "most people". I'm not most people. All
> > of us subscribed to this mailing list are probably not most people. And
> > most people don't name their files orderly, and put them in logical
> > places. I've seen people who write something about a project about the
> > Civil War and name it "project.doc". I would name it "Civil War
> > Project.odt", and that person put the file in their My Pictures folder
> > because that's where the Save dialog box is open to. They are the people
> > who would benefit most from Beagle, and that's also about 90% of the
> > computing population, so if openSUSE wants to reach that 90%, it a good
> > idea to have Beagle installed by default and turned on.
>
> Unless of course that solution destroys the performance on the target
> system. I am the one who started this thread, and as I stated at the
> beginning, I have a dual core Turion L52 64bit processor, 1.5Gigs of
> memory and a 7200 RPM Sata drive, and the performance went out the
> door. Other than a large MBox in my Thunderbird, I don't have that
> much data to index, and Beagle took 700Meg or RAM and 1Gig of SWAP,
> niced or not, that causes a lot of swapping.
>
> Gary B

Notwithstanding the fact that Beagle created performance issues on your 
system, have you considered converting from MBox to Maildir format for your 
mail? This will increase performance both in terms of reading mail and also 
probably for Beagle (which probably tried to load your entire MBox file into 
memory in order to index your mail). It doesn't have to do that with Maildir 
since each mail is a separate file.

There is a script floating around the net somewhere (I may even have a copy) 
which converts MBox to Maildir format without trashing the original mbox file 
so you can revert if you really need to. Funnily enough, I think the script 
is called mbox2maildir. If you're interested I'll see if I still have it and 
email it to you.

Rodney.

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