20K(+) messages on this Mailing List folder

[Tom Taylor]

Hi Jorge:

Just a suggestion.  What I do is save only those messages I think will be of 
use to me in the near future in a separate folder.  The rest get tossed.

Then, if I can't find womething I need locally, I look in the archive which is 
always available.  

The advantage:  Doesn't take up as much space on my hard drive.
The disadvantage:  I have to fire up the browser and search the archive.

That's what's great in linux, so many ways to do things!

Tom

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 20:20, Jorge 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

-- 
Tom Taylor
registered linux user #263467

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful - and so are we,"
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
people - and neither do we." - George W. Bush, Aug 2004