KMAIL gets slow and hogs system resources
If I don't shut down kmail for a couple of days or do a lot of moving mails from one folder to another (say 100+ mails) I find that kmail starts hogging cpu cycles and memory. Then when I shut Kmail down it hogs even more resources and takes several minutes (in bad cases 7-8 minutes) for the kmail process to stop. Is this 'normal' for kmail? Kmail version is 1.3.1 using KDE 2.2.1 on SuSE 7.3 Thanks, Jethro
At 11:11 AM 1/24/2002 +0800, you wrote:
If I don't shut down kmail for a couple of days or do a lot of moving mails from one folder to another (say 100+ mails) I find that kmail starts hogging cpu cycles and memory. Then when I shut Kmail down it hogs even more resources and takes several minutes (in bad cases 7-8 minutes) for the kmail process to stop.
Is this 'normal' for kmail?
Yeah, sadly - for me anyway. I've lately stared trying to use Kmail as my main mail application, both the 2.2.2 version and the kde3 beta, and I must say I'm pretty disappointed with it - it's not that the Kmail guys havne't worked on it really hard, it's just not up to par yet (though neither is Eudora, which is why I've started trying to use Kmail). It's not too stable, and is a resource hog.
Kmail version is 1.3.1 using KDE 2.2.1 on SuSE 7.3
Thanks,
Jethro
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On Thursday 24 January 2002 04.24, JW wrote:
Yeah, sadly - for me anyway. I've lately stared trying to use Kmail as my main mail application, both the 2.2.2 version and the kde3 beta, and I must say I'm pretty disappointed with it - it's not that the Kmail guys havne't worked on it really hard, it's just not up to par yet (though neither is Eudora, which is why I've started trying to use Kmail). It's not too stable, and is a resource hog.
My experiences have been different. I wouldn't say I have *that* much email, but my folders have in excess of 10,000 mails, and kmail handles them very nicely. It hasn't crashed on me for as long as I can remember. (KMail 1.3.2 om KDE 2.2.2 at present, but I've been using kmail since kde 1). I've tried kde3/kmail too, and it's running nicely. One of these days I'll switch over to it permanently. I tried using evolution for a bit, but had to give up, since it was just too slow on my larger folders. //Anders
Hi Jonathan and Jethro: Kmail is only using 3.25% of my memory; I have 2408 messages stored in it and it runs pretty good. I think I crashed it twice in 4 months. Did you guys try Ben Rosenberg's trick of deleting temp files?
Hi Jonathan,
Kmail is only using 3.25% of my memory; I have 2408 messages stored in it and it runs pretty good. I think I crashed it twice in 4 months. Did you guys try Ben Rosenberg's trick of deleting temp files?
For the most part Kmail uses a tiny amount of system resources, it's just when I start doing lots of deletes or moving large numbers of mail from one folder to another. I'm guessing that there is a lot caching in memory going on. Added together I think all my folders probably have something like 50~80,000 messages and often flip between some of the big ones. Do you have any more details about the temp files you refer to? TIA, Jethro
Hi Jethro: On Wednesday 23 January 2002 23:25, you wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
Kmail is only using 3.25% of my memory; I have 2408 messages stored in it and it runs pretty good. I think I crashed it twice in 4 months. Did you guys try Ben Rosenberg's trick of deleting temp files?
For the most part Kmail uses a tiny amount of system resources, it's just when I start doing lots of deletes or moving large numbers of mail from one folder to another. I'm guessing that there is a lot caching in memory going on. Added together I think all my folders probably have something like 50~80,000 messages and often flip between some of the big ones.
Do you have any more details about the temp files you refer to?
TIA,
Jethro
Here is Ben's original message (I believe it is Ben's) ______________________________________________________ Here's the best way I can tell you. 1. make 3 directories in tmp..kde-base, kde-apps and kde-dev. 2. Download the pkgs that relate to these directories. 3. Use yast1 to install the package groups 1 at a time..and after each group has been installed..esc out and let SuSEconfig and all the other update tools run so that everything is updated. I do base then dev then apps. This works for me everytime. I would also remove all the tmp stuff in /tmp like... kde-<your username> ksocket-<your username> mcop-<your username> I would also remove somethings from your home directory..such as.. .MCOP* .DCOP* .mcop* Also, in your .kde2 directory remove the 2 tmp files that point to the directories in /tmp that you removed...socket-<machine name> and tmp-<machine name> If you do it like this..and then restart KDM if you use it..or simply go into KDE 2..all those files and directories you deleted will be recreated from the new version. Cheers and good luck! ____________________________________________________ NOTE: I also use YAST to have it delet all temp files when shutting down my computer. You can do this with YaST - > sytem admin -> modify /etc/rc.config At least I think that is the command sequence. It's something similar to that.
On Thursday 24 January 2002 11:24, JW wrote:
Yeah, sadly - for me anyway. I've lately stared trying to use Kmail as my main mail application, both the 2.2.2 version and the kde3 beta, and I must say I'm pretty disappointed with it - it's not that the Kmail guys havne't worked on it really hard, it's just not up to par yet (though neither is Eudora, which is why I've started trying to use Kmail). It's not too stable, and is a resource hog.
I've found that the only problem with stability is when you do drag-and-drop and that goes for kde as a whole. If avoid d-n-d then it doesn't crash on me - just gets slow. Originally when I switched to Kmail (about 9-10 months ago now) I thought it was really basic and simple, that's coming from Outlook 2000. Now I don't even notice the differences and like it's simplicity. Jethro
hi jethro, never had any problems when moving folders around in kmail. only problem that occurs sometimes is that kmail seems to crash, at least it does no redrwas etc, but only after some days running. that kmail uses up cpu for a while after closing _can_ be pretty ok. if you have large folders and configured kmail to compress and cleanup its folders after quitting, it needs time and cpu to do so. greets, chris Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2002 04:11 schrieb Jethro Cramp:
If I don't shut down kmail for a couple of days or do a lot of moving mails from one folder to another (say 100+ mails) I find that kmail starts hogging cpu cycles and memory. Then when I shut Kmail down it hogs even more resources and takes several minutes (in bad cases 7-8 minutes) for the kmail process to stop.
Is this 'normal' for kmail?
Kmail version is 1.3.1 using KDE 2.2.1 on SuSE 7.3
Thanks,
Jethro
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Chris,
if you have large folders and configured kmail to compress and cleanup its folders after quitting, it needs time and cpu to do so.
Thanks. I'd forgotten about the compress folders. I'm going to try turning that off. Jethro
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