20K(+) messages on this Mailing List folder

[Ed K.]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jorge [iso-8859-1] Fábregas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I subscribed to this list on May,2004. So far, I haven't delete any message at
> all because once in a while I perform a search against it whenever I need to
> find out about something (rather than going to the redhat archive).
>
> I use Kmail on a Tualatin 1.4 Ghz, 512 MB and a 7200 RPM IDE disk. I now have
> 24,219 messages on the folder. I'm NOW starting to feel it.  Although I was
> used to the 6-8 seconds it took Kmail to load...now when I click on the
> Fedora-list folder, it takes about 1.5 seconds before it shows me a message
> at all.
>
> What do you recommend me?
>
> Should I:
>
> 1> Buy a 10K RPM SCSI hard-disk? (would I notice a big improvement?)
> 2> Switch to maildir format?
> 3> Delete old msg's and get the habit of using redhat archive?
>
> Comments are welcome!
>
> Jorge
>

May I suggest:

4> Migrate to DBMail (http://DBMail.org/) with a MySQL backend.

That is where I put about all my archives.

ed