KMail is horrifically slow?

Christoph Kaulich kaulich at gns-mbh.com
Thu Jan 7 11:31:03 UTC 2010


Am Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2010 12:01:41 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> On Wednesday 06 January 2010 21:59:53 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
> > Hello Anne,
> >
> > On Tuesday 05 January 2010, 12:01, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Since the 4.3.85 updates I've had lots of problems with kontact.  Some
> > > are now sorted, but most obtrusive is the fact that every time I send a
> > > message I get upwards of half a minute of 99% activity before it goes,
> > > and during that time I can't read another message, change folder, or
> > > anything.
> > >
> > > Is anyone else seeing this?  I'm turning off signing for this one, to
> > > see whether that makes a difference.
> >
> > I wouldn't say it's "horrifically slow", but it's slower than before.
> >
> > With the System Activity viewer open, sorted by CPU usage, I created a
> > new blank mail, and after pressing Send, I can see virtuoso_t climbing up
> > the list for a few seconds, consuming 23% of CPU.
> >
> > In conclusion, I'd blame Nepomuk/Virtuoso.
> > If you can test with the System Activity, share the results back.
> 
> That seems to agree with my observations.  This morning, I even saw it
>  using 78% CPU, while the popup said that it was waiting for 'something' to
>  happen. I didn't see any indication what that 'something' might be.
> 
> I tried the command recommended by techbase (with kontact closed, of
>  course).
> 
> qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver     org.kde.NepomukServer.quit
> 
> After which I saw several instances of:
> 
> Nepomuk Indexing Agents Have Been Disabled
> The Nepomuk service is not available or fully operational and attempts to
> rectify this have failed.  Therefore indexing of all data stored in the
> Akonadi PIM service has been disabled, which will severely limit the
> capabilities of any application using this data.
> 
> The following problems were detected:
>   * Nepomuk is not running.
> 
> Additional help can be found here:  userbase.kde.org/Akonadi
> 
> So then, to restart it:
> 
> nepomukserver
> Nepomuk server already running.
> 
> All of which is confusing, to say the least.  By now, though, I'm totally
> convinced that this is where the problem lies.  Ksysguard shows Nepomuk CPU
> usage shooting up every time I have a KMail freeze.
> 
> Anne
> 
Do you have this for kmail standalone or for kmail in kontact?

I have same hangs in korganizer, but only if integrated in kontact, starting 
korganizer by its own it is wrking better.

Christoph



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