On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:16:57PM +0100, Rocco Rutte wrote: > * Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Am 2007-11-21 11:49:13, schrieb Nicolas KOWALSKI: >>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:37:22AM +0100, Rocco Rutte wrote: >>> > * Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > >>> >> I have noticed that the headers databases are always growing, even if >>> >> I delete mails. > >>> > Here it's important from where you delete them. When you delete them > >>> within mutt using that header cache, it should remove those entries > >>> (mutt doesn't sync the hcache to changes using other tools). > >>> I delete these mails within mutt. > >> Me too... And it seems to me like a bug... > > Yes, confirmed with qdbm here. I checked and both qdbm as well as gdbm > provide routines to reorganize/optimize the database which seems to work > here (at least for qdbm). I guess the backends keep the allocated space and > don't free them immediately as that's (maybe lots of) additional costs. > > I'll send out a patch to mutt-dev tomorrow since I need to do some testing > on how fast/slow that actually is.
Thanks for your reply. BTW, again about hcache handling, when I delete a folder within mutt, the hcache file remains. Should we also consider this a bug ? Thanks, -- Nicolas
