Package: offlineimap Version: 6.0.3 Severity: normal About once a year, I connect to imap.gmail.com with mutt and delete lots of mail -- duplicates, anything archived on a mailing list, spam, etc.
I did this just now, and ended up deleting around 20,000 messages. When I run offlineimap, it happily prints that it will delete stuff from "[...]) in Maildir[all], LocalStatus[all]". And indeed, almost immediately I can see with du that the maildir folder has gone from 290MB to 100MB. Admirably efficient. But offlineimap doesn't stop. So far it has been running for twenty-five minutes, and in that time has used up 13 minutes of CPU (i.e. about 50% CPU utilization). Clearly something extremely suboptimal is going on here. If I had to guess, I would suspect the problem is that offlineimap is repeatedly opening its ~/.offlineimap metadata, deleting a single message, then closing those files again. This problem may also be exacerbated by the fact that my nonvolatile storage is an SSD, which (I hear) has slow write speeds compared to a traditional HDD. The disk activity light is blinking at around 2Hz. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages offlineimap depends on: ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-support 0.8.7 automated rebuilding support for P offlineimap recommends no packages. Versions of packages offlineimap suggests: pn python-kerberos <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
