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From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:28:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60607241628s50e42262re44d206c4bd9c847@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0db71799aab657f72a2861a3e5255af9@9netics.com>

On 7/24/06, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> i tend to keep my mail box pruned, but still keep nearly ½ of all the
> messages; i archive once every 6 months or so.  mailbox gets big, but
> i've not had any problems.  e.g:
>
> cpu% grep 'Well as much as I love how upas' /mail/fs/mbox/*/body
> /mail/fs/mbox/2634/body:Well as much as I love how upas/fs works, it, along with Acme's Mail
> /mail/fs/mbox/2638/body:> Well as much as I love how upas/fs works, it, along with Acme's Mail
> /mail/fs/mbox/2640/body:> Well as much as I love how upas/fs works, it, along with Acme's Mail
>
> have you found a upas limit?
>

I've not... I was just expressing my skepticism of it's ability to
scale.  Perhaps it's not as bad as I thought.

As in my saying "as much as I love how upas/fs works" I was actually
thinking that having mail as a filesystem was clearly a big bonus, for
tools like grep/sed/awk to be applied to.

Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-24 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060724160009.A640A5AF70@mail.cse.psu.edu>
2006-07-24 16:38 ` Andrew Hudson
2006-07-24 19:28   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 19:49     ` csant
2006-07-24 19:53       ` John Floren
2006-07-24 20:19         ` [9fans] missing applications Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-07-24 20:22           ` John Floren
2006-07-25 10:29             ` Harri Haataja
2006-07-25 15:06               ` David Leimbach
2006-07-25 19:53               ` Robert Raschke
2006-07-25 21:25               ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-25 17:52                 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-25 18:32                   ` Harri Haataja
2006-07-25 18:26                 ` Harri Haataja
2006-07-25 18:33                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-25 18:47                     ` Harri Haataja
2006-07-24 22:41         ` [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52 Micah Stetson
2006-07-24 23:17           ` Jack Johnson
2006-07-24 20:02       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 20:02       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 20:08         ` csant
2006-07-24 20:23           ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 20:31           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 20:43             ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 20:21       ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 20:26         ` John Floren
2006-07-25  0:17         ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-24 20:36           ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-24 20:51             ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 20:42           ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 21:15           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-24 23:28             ` David Leimbach [this message]
2006-07-25 13:38               ` rog
2006-07-25 14:58                 ` Darren Bane
2006-07-24 23:59       ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-24 20:26         ` Richard Miller
2006-07-24 23:48         ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-25  2:50       ` Dan Cross
2006-07-25  3:01         ` John Floren
2006-07-25  3:58         ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-07-25  5:35           ` David Leimbach
2006-07-25  6:06         ` Bakul Shah
2006-07-25 10:34           ` John Pritchard
2006-07-25 20:17             ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-25 21:23               ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-25 21:27                 ` Paul Hebble
2006-07-25 21:41                   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-25 22:28                 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-25 22:38                   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-25 23:32                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-25 22:59               ` csant
2006-07-25 23:28                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-26 17:40                   ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-26 17:55                     ` Lou Kamenov
2006-07-26 17:57                       ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-26 17:58                       ` Lou Kamenov
2006-07-26 18:13                         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-26 18:15                           ` Lou Kamenov
2006-07-26 20:40                         ` [9fans] small devices Charles Forsyth
2006-07-26 21:03                           ` lucio
2006-07-26 21:18                           ` Paul Lalonde
2006-07-26 21:35                             ` csant
2006-07-26 21:37                           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-27  0:41                             ` LiteStar numnums
2006-07-25 18:20           ` [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52 Skip Tavakkolian

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