Re: Large amount of write activity upon message expunge

Oscar del Rio <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:24:28 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 06/15/10 05:54 PM, Nathan Olson wrote:
> I recently performed the following test to see what happens
> I/O-wise when a message is deleted from a 'large' (~80k
> messages) mbx-format INBOX.
>    

That is a limitation of the mbx format.
I think the entire mailbox needs to be rewritten upon expunge.
You should use mix format for large mailboxes.



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