Not my script, but it's a pain to find http://www.flamingspork.com/junkcode/mbox2maildir.pl does it a lot quicker :) On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:04 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: > I discovered a bug in KMail which can cause it to lock, causing Xorg to > lock in such a way that it also (effectively, anyway) locks swap once > you accumulate more than 256k messages (as in 256,000 messages, not > 256kB of messages) in one MailBox file. Goodbye, box, hurrah for > jounralling file systems. > > So, I told it to move the entire 1.1GB MailBox into a (MailDir) > subfolder. > > Time to enter box: 1.5hrs > > Time to complete Select All: 2.5hrs > > Time to first message written in MailDir: 4.0hrs > > Time to last message written: 10.0hrs > > Time to delete MailBox message by message: 4.0hrs > > -------- > Elapsed 22.0hrs > > Nominally 2.4GHz AMD, 512MB RAM (process used about 220MB throughout), > 200GB 7200RPM IDE HDD. > > _Very_ happy we didn't have another power failure midway through. > > Cheers; Leon > > -- > http://cyberknights.com.au/ Modern tools; traditional dedication > http://plug.linux.org.au/ Member, Perth Linux User Group > http://osia.net.au/ Member, Open Source Industry Australia > http://slpwa.asn.au/ Member, Linux Professionals WA > http://linux.org.au/ Member, Linux Australia > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus > -- Stewart Smith (stewart@flamingspork.com) http://www.flamingspork.com/
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