Re: Clicking on new mail causes Index problem

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On Friday 16 October 2009 at 3:59 pm, Anne Wilson penned
about "Re: [kdepim-users] Clicking on new mail causes Index problem"

> On Friday 16 October 2009 18:44:29 r bartlett wrote:
> > How robust is this?  It seems I'm currently barely able to drag
> > even a month (500 or so messages) without Kontact crashing, with
> > 100 percent CPU resources used.
>
> It depends on the version you are using.  A year or so back I
> remember that I used to keep it down to 100 or so at a time, to
> avoid crashing.  Since then I've moved much bigger parcels around,
> but probably no more than 500 or so at a time.

I'm on openSUSE 11.1, running Release 3.5.10 ("release 21.9") and I
routinely drag 1500-2000 messages to my `archive' folder (a folder
named archive.)

I don't put kmail offline.

I'm using maildir.

I keep in my `archive' folder the past year's worth of sent and
received e-mails.  Yes, every single one of them!  :)

Last year (2008), I received 35,380 messages and sent 8,084.

So unlike Anne's experience, I find kmail to be very robust moving
huge chunks around.  

Speaking of, I need to archive away June ... 

... I grabbed 801 `Sent' messages in one shot.  It took about 10
seconds - I didn't time it though.  :o

Next I moved 2,564 messages.  It took roughly 45 seconds.  While
running, my hard drive was maxed out.  CPU was only at 30% on one of
my cores.

My machine is very fast though:  I7 950.

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