[Kde-pim] harddisk access when starting kontact/kmail

[Jos Poortvliet]

It would help a lot if you would turn of atime in /etc/fstab - then
the harddrive doesn't have to write on every file read... (add
"noatime" to the options for each harddrive).

On 10/8/07, Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> When I start kontact/kmail it asks for the kwallet-password. Then it checks
> for new email. Yet even if there is no internet-connection, i.e. the check
> fails, kmail/kontact accesses the harddisk for >10 seconds thereby slowing
> down KDE starting other applications.
>
> If the check does not fail downloading and processing email is slowed down
> too, because of the extensive harddisk access. If I understand the strace
> output correctly it tries to find some icons.
>
> access("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/apps/quotecollapse.svg", R_OK) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> access("/opt/gnome/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/apps/quotecollapse.svg", R_OK)
> = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> Is there another way to do whatever this is for in order not to keep the
> harddisk busy?
>
> Regards
>
> Sven
>
> The full log: http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/sven.burmeister/stracelog.txt
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