[Kde-pim] 80%CPU and 46% memory used by kontact with maildir containing about 40000 messages

[Tom Albers]

Op vr 27 apr 2007 08:50 schreef u:
> Hi,
> 
> Could you let me know, if I have a chance to minimise kontact's needs for
> resources? I had temporarily left my better computer and must use a older
> machine (640 MB RAM, Celeron 900 MHz, Kubuntu 6.10, Kontact 1.2.3, KMail
> 1.9.5). I have a big maildir archive (40000 messages) + using two IMAP
> accounts both with less as 1000 messages. Unfortunately,  I have a problem
> with performance on the old computer (only). After first start, kontact did
> something on background which take about two days. After that, any actions
> take unusably too long. For example, to move a message via M button and
> "movement" in the list to next one takes seconds. I had disabled all type of
> sorting like threads and so on, but there is still no improvement.
> 
> Is this related to number of messages? I like Kontact and would prefer to
> find the way, how to use it also on this configuration.

You can try. move the messages and config and see if it works again, then move 1000 messages to the folder and see if it still works ok. I think 40.000 messages in a folder is much, especially with maildir you can easily split them.

Please make sure you have backups before testing anything.

gr.

Toma
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