KMail slows system down
Hi, are you experiencing the same problem that with about 20 mailing lists KMail slows the system down regularly? Especially when you set the maximum time messages are kept in a folder is set to say 30 days? It's a fact that I suffer great performance problems with my about 20 mailing lists, not speaking about turning on the included anti-spam filter mechanism using spamassassin (and bogofilter), which really pisses me off. I am thinking about changing to another mail client, once again. But exept for text-based MUAs, which one could be faster? Thunderbird...? Doubt that. Greetings, -Ré -- Registered Linux User #324404
Hi René
I am thinking about changing to another mail client, once again. But exept for text-based MUAs, which one could be faster? Thunderbird...? Doubt that.
... as you may have read in my conversation with Randall, I use Thunderbird while he uses KMail. I can't speak for KMail here but I never had any performance issues with Thunderbird while also having subscribed to a huge number of lists. It fetches the mail, moves them into subfolders according to rules I have set up and it works like a charm. I never had any problems with that. And no, I don't want to advertise Thunderbird. All I'm saying is, it does a great job for me, which does not necessarily mean it does a great job for anybody else. ;-) -- cul8er Paul paul.foerster@gmx.net
Am Sonntag, 11. Juni 2006 23:04 schrieb René Matthäi:
are you experiencing the same problem that with about 20 mailing lists KMail slows the system down regularly? Especially when you set the maximum time messages are kept in a folder is set to say 30 days?
It's a fact that I suffer great performance problems with my about 20 mailing lists, not speaking about turning on the included anti-spam filter mechanism using spamassassin (and bogofilter), which really pisses me off.
Didnt have these problems with kmail, also with some subscribed mailing-lists. Some of them has no expire-time, so they have about 15000 messages in its directory. Overall my local mailbox has about 40000 mails. No performance loss with kmail from kde 3.4.x in SuSE 9.3 until now (3.5.3 in OpenSUSE 10.1). My machine was until last week a PIII 1000 with 384 MB Ram, and only if i want to search through all messages it slows down very much. Now i have a Dual Core T2300 with 1 Gig Ram and there is not much difference. Searching slows down the machine like before, but anything else went fine. Also like before. So i think you have to look at another point for your performance issue. regards, Jens
On Sunday 11 June 2006 23:04, René Matthäi wrote:
Hi,
are you experiencing the same problem that with about 20 mailing lists KMail slows the system down regularly? Especially when you set the maximum time messages are kept in a folder is set to say 30 days?
It's a fact that I suffer great performance problems with my about 20 mailing lists, not speaking about turning on the included anti-spam filter mechanism using spamassassin (and bogofilter), which really pisses me off.
For me there is no problem with Kmail alone, but with spamassassin checking mail the system is really slow. Therefore I start kmail with "nice -10". I have an icon for kmail on my desktop and I changed the properties of this icon. On the tab for application the command is now nice -10 kmail -caption "%c" %i %m Now it takes some seconds longer until I can read mails, but until then the system is still usable for other things. Regards, Nils
Nils Kassube wrote:
On Sunday 11 June 2006 23:04, René Matthäi wrote:
Hi,
are you experiencing the same problem that with about 20 mailing lists KMail slows the system down regularly? Especially when you set the maximum time messages are kept in a folder is set to say 30 days?
It's a fact that I suffer great performance problems with my about 20 mailing lists, not speaking about turning on the included anti-spam filter mechanism using spamassassin (and bogofilter), which really pisses me off.
For me there is no problem with Kmail alone, but with spamassassin checking mail the system is really slow. Therefore I start kmail with "nice -10". I have an icon for kmail on my desktop and I changed the properties of this icon. On the tab for application the command is now
nice -10 kmail -caption "%c" %i %m
Now it takes some seconds longer until I can read mails, but until then the system is still usable for other things.
I noticed something similar once when I was trying kmail, and selected all the spam filter options available out of curiosity. While downloading the messages from my pop3 mailbox the machine ground to a halt while kmail frantically consumed memory and cpu. I had to manually kill kmail, which was then unable to find any messages next time it was started. That incident scared me away from kmail, and I went back to the mozilla solution (currently thunderbird), the only one that has worked reliably for me over the past dozen years. (don't get me started on evolution) Another plus for users of the netscape/mozilla/seakmonkey/thunderbird mail clients is that it's nice to be able to access your emails with normal unix text tools and/or mail clients. In any case, it's much better to do the spam filtering at the smtp server. I'd rather save my desktop cpu cycles for gaming and multimedia, not grunt work better done at the server. Joe
On Monday 12 June 2006 20.35, J Sloan wrote:
I noticed something similar once when I was trying kmail, and selected all the spam filter options available out of curiosity. While downloading the messages from my pop3 mailbox the machine ground to a halt while kmail frantically consumed memory and cpu.
What were you using for a spam filter? I experienced the same thing when I once tried to use spamassassin. Since I switched to bogofilter I have no problem. So I think kmail is not the culprit, the spamfilter is. Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive.
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Monday 12 June 2006 20.35, J Sloan wrote:
I noticed something similar once when I was trying kmail, and selected all the spam filter options available out of curiosity. While downloading the messages from my pop3 mailbox the machine ground to a halt while kmail frantically consumed memory and cpu.
What were you using for a spam filter? I experienced the same thing when I once tried to use spamassassin. Since I switched to bogofilter I have no problem. So I think kmail is not the culprit, the spamfilter is.
I enabled everything on the menu, just out of curiosity. spamassassin, bogofilter, gmx IIRC. It is true that spamassassin requires some resources, but it does a fantastic job on the server. I was only curious about various options - something any user might try, with unfortunate results. Joe
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