Jos? Matos wrote: > 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 > Perhaps 'atop' can help you diagnose this?
