[Kde-mobile-users] Re: Maemo/N900: KMail Touch very slow and unresponsive

[Yuen Hoe Lim]

I've recently also installed Kontact Touch on n900 and am also seeing this.
On the other hand, testing it with another,  much smaller, account, it works
far more responsively.

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Jason "moofang" Lim Yuen Hoe
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2011/2/19 Frederik Vogelsang <frederik.vogelsang at googlemail.com>

> Hi,
>
> first of all I would like to thank the Kontact Touch developers for the
> effort they put into porting KMail/Kontact to mobile devices.
>
> I just gave KMail Touch a try (the experimental version) and I am very
> impressed by the UI and general look and feel. However I am suffering from
> severe performance problems. This is my setup:
>
> 1. N900 with latest software updates
> 2. Kontact Touch from experimental repositories
> 3. One single GMail IMAP account configured in KMail (I have about 1,6GB of
> messages in my INBOX and 5 IMAP folders).
>
> I understand that initial fetching of emails might take a long time. I let
> the device sit there for a few hours in order to fetch the mails from the
> server. What seems strange is that whenever I launch KMail again it takes
> forever to launch and fetch new mails (20 minutes), even after the initial
> fetching is done.
>
> akonadi and akonadi_imap_resource both seem to consume *a lot* of CPU -
> overclocking to 800MHz did not make a difference. When launching KMail the
> entire OS becomes unresponsive and basically unusable. This is every time I
> launch KMail. Rebooting the N900 makes things worse - launching KMail after
> a reboot feels like it does initial fetching again.
>
> The other thing is that it also takes forever to actually open an IMAP
> folder. For me it takes ~5 minutes per folder. Is this expected?
>
> KMail on my desktop does not have these issues (same IMAP account). The
> default N900 email client is also pretty fast when fetching emails from
> GMail.
>
> Do you have any idea what could be wrong? Is this normal behaviour of the
> experimental version? Is this going to change?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Frederik
>
>
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