dreadfully slow kmail dragging the rest of the system down with it

[José Matos]

On Thursday 20 May 2010 01:02:59 Dave Stevens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have kmail 1.13.2 running with KDE 4.4.2. Recently (for about two weeks)
> the performance has been really dreadful. It routinely drives the load
> average on the system to about 1.4 or 1.5, takes up about 90% of a cpu and
> generally makes the whole system only marginally useful. I can easily use
> webmail to communicate but that's not why IO have Kmail installed. I don't
> know what bits are responsible for this behavior and don't know where to
> start looking. This seems (as I recall) to have started with the KDE 4.4.0
> release and has been rather sliding since then. I use maildir format
> mailboxes and there has been no sudden increase in the number of emails I
> get or send. If I let kmail alone for a few hours it gets somewhat better.
> I suspect an indexing program, I suppose akonadi? or nepomuk? I seem to
> have 8 instances of nepomuk running. Where should I be looking for clues?

I noticed something similar before but I don't see this anymore. I am running 
4.4.3 (although I am not sure this is the culprit for the good behaviour of 
kmail now).

> Dave

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José Abílio