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

[Jiří Navrátil]

2007/5/2, Jiří Navrátil <jiri at navratil.cz>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had moved 10 000 messages using mutt to IMAP. After this, I have about
> 30 000 messages (13 000 unsorted in one maildir and rest sorted in 1281
> maildir folders)
>
> Unfortunately, there is no related improvement in performance.
>
> I noticed, that in the "root" mail folder, all maildir folders are in
> circle touched (date / time changed). Can this be the problem?
>
>
> In other words, my feeling is, that KMail is checking in circle all
> maildirs for statistics reasons. I will try to disable column with
> statistics, but I can not disable information about number of new messages.
> I will then move all sorted messages to one folder, if this help.
>
> Best regards,
> Jiri
>
> 2007/4/27, Tom Albers <tomalbers at kde.nl>:
> >
> > 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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