On Saturday January 17 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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I wonder if simply removing these .index.ids files might cause KMail to regenerate them and in doing so eliminate this behavior?
Well, I tried this. After removing them and restarting, there was, unsurprisingly, a lot of I/O at start-up while the .index.ids files were recreate. Sadly, the original symptom remains. What's more, the second start-up after removing them causes KMail to appear to go into an infinite loop. It turns out that KMail is again processing every mailbox file (mbox format). For me, this took a little over 5 minutes of 100% CPU. (I thought it was broken, but by repeatedly running lsof for the KMail process and filtering out those files in my ~/Mail directory, I could see it was slowly progressing from one mailbox to another.) In the end, I'm back where I started, a huge burst of I/O and the modification times of every single .index.ids file being updated when KMail quits. This is really quite annoying. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org