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anubis

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Registered: 2009-04-18

Posts: 10

[Solved] KDE PIM / kmail takes forever to display or send email

Since I upgraded to KDE 4.11 the KDE PIM components are acting up.

It takes minutes to display or send email in kmail (or kontact) while top reveals high system resource consumption by relevant processes:
<code>
  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
3203 anubis    25   5 3868884 1.576g  55632 S  62.5 20.2 328:15.34 kmail                                                                                                                                                                                                     
  650 anubis    20   0 3383436  99480   7012 S  29.9  1.2 662:35.25 mysqld                                                                                                                                                                                                     
  648 anubis    20   0 2761148  28324   8128 S  20.0  0.3 448:22.29 akonadiserver
</code>

To solve this I have tried to run the following without effect:
1) nepomukcleaner
2) deleting ~/.local/share/akonadi and ~/.kde4/share/apps/akonadi

While doing 2) I temporarily disabled nepomuk in System Settings and for that duration kmail had normal response times, but after reactivating nepomuk, everything went back to hell again.
Yes, I am running kde pim 4.11.0-2 packages.

I am wondering if anybody else has problems with KDE PIM/Nepomuk/Akonadi or maybe even has a solution for this particular problem.

Edit: I presume https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168616 is a similar problem.

Last edited by anubis (2013-09-05 08:13:55)

oho

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Registered: 2013-08-24

Posts: 1

Re: [Solved] KDE PIM / kmail takes forever to display or send email

I have the same problem, but unfortunatelly no solution.
I also tried deleting several configaration files with no effect.
The only way to reduce system load is killing kmail and using thunderbird.

micsnare

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Registered: 2013-08-25

Posts: 57

Re: [Solved] KDE PIM / kmail takes forever to display or send email

Yeah, I still experience the same problem (although I'm on Kubuntu...)

Kmail is un-usable slow....unbelieveable that they commit changes to such an important program, without testing it properly.

micsnare

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Registered: 2013-08-25

Posts: 57

Re: [Solved] KDE PIM / kmail takes forever to display or send email

Also when starting kmail from the konsole I get this message, when trying to click on a mail...

kmail2(3982) MessageList::Core::ModelPrivate::findMessageParent: Circular reference loop detected in the message tree

this seems rather unusal, right?!

anubis

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Registered: 2009-04-18

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] KDE PIM / kmail takes forever to display or send email

as stated in a bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323740#c6 I had a duplicate folder in my Local Folders. This only became apparent when using akonadiconsole. With the browser tab there I saw that I had 'trash' and 'wastebin'. After deleting one (can't remember which), kmail went back to working properly and fast again.