Matthew --
...and then Matthew D. Fuller said...
%
% On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:26:55PM -0500 I heard the voice of
% Derek D. Martin, and lo! it spake thus:
% >
% > In which case I would ask, dude, why? I thought my counterpart at
% > work was a pack rat... ;-)
%
% Hmmm....
% Well, my current archives have... *does some quick scripting*
% (ttyp4):{920}% cat temp | dc
% 817181
%
% So not quite a million messages, but still far more inodes than I'd care
% to eat on /home.
Ouch. Yeah.
%
% I rotate my folders manually every few weeks; generally, once a mailbox
% (in Maildir, being an active mailbox) reached 4000-7000 messages, and
% starts taking more than 6 or 7 seconds to open, I tag-all and drop it
% into a mbox, then slot that mbox into my archives.
Makes sense.
%
% So, does that make ME a packrat? ;)
% For reference:
% (ttyp4):{921}% du -sh .
% 2.5G .
Well, ...
[zero] [9:05am] ~/Mail> cat `find . -type f -print | egrep -v /Z/ | \
egrep '/F\.'` | egrep '^From ' | wc -l
38124
[zero] [9:09am] ~/Mail> cat `find . -type f -print | egrep -v /Z/ | \
egrep -v '/F\.'` | egrep '^From ' | wc -l
31237
[zero] [9:13am] ~/Mail> zcat `find . -type f -print | egrep /Z/ | \
egrep '/F\.'` | egrep '^From ' | wc -l
168069
[zero] [9:16am] ~/Mail> zcat `find . -type f -print | egrep /Z/ | \
egrep -v '/F\.'` | egrep '^From ' | wc -l
28940
[zero] [9:16am] ~/Mail> echo "0 38124+ 31237+ 168069+ 28940+ pq" | dc
266370
[zero] [9:16am] ~/Mail> du -sh .
1.1G .
I suppose it does, since I figure I am. I honestly thought I'd at least
come close, but you're running nearly four times as many messages as I.
Of course, you're only taking up twice as much disk space; you must have
smaller messages overall ;-)
[zero] [9:18am] ~/Mail> ls -lFRt | tail
-rw------- 1 davidtg 829 Jan 12 1994 alan.z
How old is your oldest? :-)
%
% --
% Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
% Unix Systems Administrator | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
% Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/
%
% "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
% haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
:-D
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