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 -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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