Composer/Kmail freezing

[Daniel D Jones]

On Saturday, October 30, 2010 11:59:21 phanisvara das wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:49:12 +0530, Daniel D Jones
> 
> <ddjones at riddlemaster.org> wrote:
> > Recently started having problems with Composer, the editor of Kmail.
> > This only happens with the editor when I'm writing an email.  It doesn't
> > happen when I'm just reading mail.  At random intervals, Composer will
> > freeze for anywhere from fifteen or so seconds up to around 60 seconds.
> > When it's frozen, it's completely unresponsive.  Moving the mouse cursor
> > over it causes the
> > mouse cursor to disappear, so no window updates are happening.  During
> > this time, it doesn't show up in top (sorted by CPU usage) and the rest
> > of the
> > system works fine, so it doesn't appear to be a CPU usage issue.  It
> > will also freeze for around the same amount of time when I press SEND.
> 
> you don't mention your distro, or which version of KDE you are using, or
> where you got it from (repository, compiled). without that info, i don't
> think anybody will be able to help you. that said, i've experienced
> similar disturbances, after a zypper update, which installed new versions
> of several KDE libraries. in my case, the disturbance stopped after
> rebooting (loging out of KDE would probably have been sufficient).

I'm running Gentoo.  KDE version 4.4.5, Kmail 1.13.5.

Rebooting does not fix the issue.

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