[pmmail-list] time to clear trash - performance

[Bruce Francis]

Oooo, that's no fair:  it cuts down a couple of hours of a tied-up
computer to a few seconds of time, has redundancy in that it maintains
a "backup" (temp) directory in case anything happens in the interim....

nawwww, something must be wrong with it!    ;-)

[I still can't figure what's going on for 5sec/msg on a dual-drive
 Adaptec 3940W SCSI system.... ??]

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Bruce Francis      
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2001 01:27:48 -0700 (PDT), Kris Sorem Sr wrote:

>My reply to message from PMMail OS/2 Support sent on
>Sat, 06 Oct 2001 10:57:12 -0300 (ADT). You wrote:
>
>>Obviously the "check if older than" function slows things down (by
>>about 7 times). However, at only 10 minutes to process > 3,000
>>messages, I have to wonder how much this could be sped up. The
>>software must read part of each message, after all, rather than just
>>deleting it. I will ask Peter.
>
>Roughly about 5 seconds per message. Very slow. I disagree that the
>software must read part of each message. The <Trash> folder <folder.bag>
>file contains all the required information i.e. message date (third field
>of each record) and the message file name ( eleventh field of each
>record). Parse the <folder.bag> file for qualifying message records.
>Non-qualifying records can be written to a temporary file in the same
>folder. A qualifying record has the file name to delete. Delete the file.
>When the entire <folder.bag> file has been parsed, close the file and
>delete. Rename the temporary file as the new <folder.bag> file. Done. Only
>one file is read once and one file is written once.
>--
>JMO, 
>/s/~Kris

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