[Kde-pim] Akonadi: single database design mistake?

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2011 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 07:18:44PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2011 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > > I use KMail 1 from KDE 4.6.5 via IMAP to access my work mail as
> > > well, but  I learned that I better do not point it at that insane
> > > kernel-ml folder. Cause it seems that even with its flat index
> > > files it is not able to cope with it in any reasonable amount of
> > > time.
> > 
> > To be fair. That then is via IMAP. And I actually do not know whether
> > the IMAP protocol was designed with mail folders with 250000+ mails
> > in it in mind or whether either the server side or client side IMAP
> > implementation could use some optimization.
> 
> I think IMAP is usually quite reasonable. It takes mutt about 10
> seconds on my laptop to validate flags and display LKML folder in
> threaded view with ~100K mails in it if it does not need to rebuild
> its index. Of course if there are several thousand emails that it
> hasn't seen before and needs to fetch headers for and add to the
> index, it takes a bit longer.

Ok, then it seems that KMail could use some optimization there as well. 
Cause it takes ages to display any contents of that 250000+ mail folder in 
KMail via IMAP over local at least 1 GBit based network (1 GBit from the 
workstation or laptop, 10 GBit in the backend).

Ciao,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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