KDE-SIG meeting report (03/2011)

[Michal Hlavinka]

> keep kdepim-4.6 or revert to kdepim-4.4
> 
> * user reports
> ** rdieter report success using kmail 4.6 with his 100 mb GMail mailbox
> ** dgilmore testing against ~100gb imap mail: (mostly) fail, initial sync
> of data resulted in akonadi crash, and pegging cpu for quite awhile
> ** jreznik reports - importing new email ok, actually very good, after
> restart Akonadi and Nepomuk eating 100% cpu
> ** than reports several crashes
> ** we need more users testing!

I've started using new kmal on one computer some time ago and I still regret I 
did no make any mail backup before. I have about 7 mail accounts. 5x pop3, 2x 
imap. One imap account is really huge. I can see a great improvement from first 
4.5 release, but it's still too slow and resource hungry. Time to time I can 
see my computer being much slower. When I look at top output, it's always the 
same: akonadi+mysql. If I had my backups I won't be using it. Also compared 
with 4.4.9 kmail I use on different computer, it's much slower to use. Maybe 
there are some benefits like supercool searching thanks akonadi, but for my 
work I do not use that feature, so I don't see any benefit at all, on the other 
hand I can see the negatives (amount of resources it requires, slowness...) 
pretty well.

Michal