kmail hanging/eating CPU when deleting a particular message from this list

Till Adam adam at kde.org
Mon Jul 18 07:13:48 BST 2005


On Sunday 17 July 2005 23:01, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 17 July 2005 20:04, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 July 2005 19:56, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > On Sunday 17 July 2005 19:50, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > > I know it's somewhat offtopic for kde-core-devel, but since it's
> > > > rather likely that there are many kmail users here and everybody
> > > > on here probably has the list subscribed .... :)
> > > >
> > > > There is a mail on this list (Message-Id:
> > > > <202411191405.58509.m.koller at surfeu.at>) by Martin Koller,
> > > > subject "desktop/kicker + icon placement", with a date set in the
> > > > future (year 2024).
> > > >
> > > > When I try to *delete* that mail only, kmail goes off and starts
> > > > munching CPU like mad. Does anyone else see this? This is with
> > > > kmail from KDE 3.4.1.
> > >
> > > Delete? or Move to Trash? Can you make your kde-core-devel folder
> > > including all corresponding index files available to me?
> >
> > Forget it. I could reproduce it. Unfortunately kill -6 produces a
> > completely bogus backtrace.
>
> Running kmail in gdb I could get a useful backtrace:
>
> #0  0x41e9bc09 in QListViewItem::takeItem ()
> from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #1  0x41e8c2a6 in QListViewItem::~QListViewItem ()
> from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #2  0x41734cff in KListViewItem::~KListViewItem ()
> from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeui.so.4
> #3  0x402a08bd in ~HeaderItem (this=0xa4f1e58)
> at /home/ingo/cvs/kde/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kmail/headeritem.cpp:68
> #4  0x40293366 in KMHeaders::msgRemoved (this=0x9405598, id=25750,
> msgId=
>       {static null = {static null = <same as static member of an already
> seen type>, d = 0x804f0c0, static shar
> ed_null = 0x804f0c0}, d = 0x89bab18, static shared_null = 0x804f0c0})
>     at /home/ingo/cvs/kde/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kmail/kmheaders.cpp:1115
> #5  0x4029d113 in KMHeaders::qt_invoke (this=0x9405598, _id=113,
> _o=0xbfffe010) at kmheaders.moc:301
> #6  0x41da3e7e in QObject::activate_signal ()
> from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #7  0x402ce15d in KMFolder::msgRemoved (this=0x8908cb0, t0=25750, t1=
>       {static null = {static null = <same as static member of an already
> seen type>, d = 0x804f0c0, static shar
> ed_null = 0x804f0c0}, d = 0x89bab18, static shared_null = 0x804f0c0}) at
> kmfolder.moc:254
> #8  0x402cebc2 in KMFolder::qt_emit (this=0x8908cb0, _id=9,
> _o=0xbfffe120) at kmfolder.moc:381
> #9  0x41da3eb1 in QObject::activate_signal ()
> from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #10 0x402ea4cf in FolderStorage::msgRemoved (this=0x8908e28, t0=25750,
> t1=
>       {static null = {static null = <same as static member of an already
> seen type>, d = 0x804f0c0, static shar
> ed_null = 0x804f0c0}, d = 0x89bab18, static shared_null = 0x804f0c0}) at
> folderstorage.moc:320
> #11 0x402e6cfb in FolderStorage::removeMsg (this=0x8908e28, idx=25750)
>     at /home/ingo/cvs/kde/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kmail/folderstorage.cpp:405
> #12 0x402cc407 in KMFolder::removeMsg (this=0x8908cb0, i=25750,
> imapQuiet=false)
>     at /home/ingo/cvs/kde/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kmail/kmfolder.cpp:392
> #13 0x40413669 in KMMoveCommand::execute (this=0x97370f0)
>     at /home/ingo/cvs/kde/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kmail/kmcommands.cpp:1927
>
>
> It seems KMail hangs in an infinite loop inside
> QListViewItem::takeItem(). (Bug in Qt? Or does our code confuse
> QListView?)

I think this is an infinite loop during reparenting of the children in a 
thread whose parent has just been removed. Do all of you use subject 
threading, and if so, does disabling that avoid the tight loop?

Till
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