[pmmail-list] time to clear trash - performance

[Dave Saville]

On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:56:51 -0300, PMMail OS/2 Support wrote:

>On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 16:01:19 -0400 (EDT), Jerry Prather wrote:
>
>>Yep, that's correct for the one item case.  However, when
>>you get a significant number of items in your Trash, things
>>are different.  I typically only dump the trash every three
>>or four days.  I dumped it last evening and there are
>>already 114 messages in there.  
>
>Part of the problem is that this is not 100% reproducible. For
>example, I have intentionally created an account with > 2,000
>messages in the Trash, closed down and _not_ had any significant disk
>thrashing.

Sorry but it *is* 100% reproducible. The problem *only* shows up with
lots of messages in trash *and* it is deleting messages older than n
days. Emptying trash does not cause any problems, because I suspect
it does the lot in one fell swoop and then rebuilds the index.
Deleting one by one OTH seems to reindex after every delete -
probably in an attempt to maintain integrity if it craps out.

I think the only workaround, which I have not tried, would be to run
a script down the trash folders that deleted files older than n days
- gfind . -mtime +n rm {} or similar and then reindex inside pmmail. 
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Regards

Dave Saville

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