Large Mailbox Append Fix

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:11:36 -0400, "Ken Murchison" <murch at andrew.cmu.edu> said:
> Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > I'm afraid I still don't see how your code addresses the case where there
> > turn out to be no more messages with higher UIDs which need uploading even
> > though we've hit exactly max_count messages.  It doesn't pre-scan to the
> > end and check if there's going to be another one so it can predict if it
> > needs to set last_uid to the mailbox value.
> 
> Ahh, my rusty old brain finally figured out what you're talking about. 
> I added a check for that case (see below).  In my infinite wisdom, I 
> also didn't have a way for the while() loop to exit cleanly.

Yeah, I didn't see that clearly in all the diff and I was concentrating
on the other issue.

> > Can you please email the sync_client.c with the patch applied so I can see
> > the function in its final form and run some thought experiments against it.
> > At the moment I feel I might be attacking a strawman, but given how bad the
> > performance hit of un-necessary cache rewrites on big folders was, I want
> > to make sure we get this logic right!
> 
> Here's what I currently have:
> 
> [snip code] 

As they would say in the Linux kernel world:

Signed-off-by: Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm>

:)

Looks good to me.

Bron.
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