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 -- Jos? Ab?lio
