KMail/kio_smtp high load

[Waldo Bastian]

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 12:13, Jorge Schramm wrote:
> Hi Waldo,
>
> > > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 00:08, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > > > > 	strace -p <PID>
> >
> > It's unlikely that it is generating very much load in that situation
> > then.
>
> You're right. Here's a new strace result.
>
> [...]
> read(6, "", 1)                          = 0
> time(NULL)                              = 1048072142
> select(7, [6], NULL, NULL, {60, 0})     = 1 (in [6], left {60, 0})
> read(6, "", 1)                          = 0
> time(NULL)                              = 1048072142
> select(7, [6], NULL, NULL, {60, 0})     = 1 (in [6], left {60, 0})
> read(6, "", 1)                          = 0
> time(NULL)                              = 1048072142
> [...]
>
> (in fewer than a second).
>
> This happens when I cancel an SMTP-transmission (by clicking on the button
> in the bottom-right of the window).

Ugh, this is pretty buggy indeed. Still puzzling though; I can see how it can 
get into this mess when the server drops the connection prematurely, but I 
don't see how you get into this by canceling the SMTP transmission. 

Can it be that it was doing this already _before_ you canceled?

Cheers,
Waldo
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