Re: Indexing Gnus (and other...) mails

[Richard Riley]

Ronan Keryell <Ronan.Keryell@hpc-project.com> writes:

> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
>> Ronan Keryell <Ronan.Keryell@hpc-project.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi Ronan,
>>
>>> I'm looking for an efficient solution to index my mail that becomes a
>>> huge issue: around 30 GB since 1987...  I've played around with beagle
>>> and tracker with no success, except spoling my processors for weeks
>>> and 10 GB of index that was never completed...
>>
>> You could try mairix (+ the gnus nnmairix backend).  According to its
>> homepage, it should be quite fast while indexing.  (But still 30GB is
>> quite a lot...)
>
> Thank you!
>
> It is a quite good suggestion! I'm going to dig into
> http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_43.html
>
> I've tried it but it failed quickly with a "Out of memory (at
> rfc822.c:439, -1538 bytes)" whereas it was only using around 200 MB of
> memory (I have 3 GB RAM + 8 GB swap available...). I do not have time to
> investigate right now but I will try in 2 weeks.
>
> It sounds like a 32-bit bug or limitation on the tool...
>
> BTW, 30 GB is not a lot, it is only 2.28 € at 0.076 €/GB now in
> France. :-) It is far less than the cost of all the people that kindly
> reply to my answer and the time I'm spending on this issue... :-)

I think he meant it's rather a ridiculous amount of email. Even 20 years
of email amounting to 30 Gig is a LOT for a single person ! Are you sure
you remembered to delete all the "oh so funny" emails with hugs
powerpoint attachments :-)