[5261] in testers
Re: Athena 9.1 public release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Jul 9 10:41:50 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:41:38 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 9 Jul 2002
at 01:04:01 -0400 in <1026191041.13031.100.camel@error-messages.mit.edu>:
> > Is there any plan to address the "evolution totally croaks on large
> > mailboxes" issue that I saw (with my 5k message mailbox)?
>
> I forget; did you still see it with HOME set to the /afs path?
Yes. When HOME was set to /mit/jhawk, evolution neede to write megabytes
of metadata to my homedir, and put me over quota. Actually, aside from
hanging, I think it handled the situation quite nicely, appearing to pause
and wait for the situation to resolve, rather than trying to procede and doing
damage.
> > Anecdotally, Arun has also seen it with a 20k message mailbox.
>
> I don't recall hearing about that.
Nor I until yesterday, which is what reminded me.
> I suspect most users with mailboxes that size can take care of
> themselves, but we'll see. If there really is a problem, I suspect that
> it's a resource use issue which we can't do much about.
Well, I worry about just what the threshold is, but I also don't think
it's true. What happens when someone goes away for vacaion for a few months?
Or get spammed by a few mesages a minute for a day, or simply never moves
their mail out of their inbox for a few years?
--jhawk
