[kdepim-users] Kmail "Processing xxxxx of nnnnn messages"

[ianseeks]

Thanks Dan

On Monday 27 Jan 2014 12:28:12 Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Monday 27 of January 2014 11:11:38 ianseeks wrote:
> > On Monday 27 Jan 2014 11:19:25 Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> > > On Sunday 26 of January 2014 17:14:33 ianseeks wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > This message appears at the bottom left hand corner of the Kmail
> > > > window
> > > > during startup.  What is it doing?
> > > > It stops Kmail marking messages as read whilst its going on.  Should
> > > > this
> > > > be a thread that runs in background and not affecting the foreground
> > > > tasks?
> > > 
> > > It's showing how many emails in the just-opened folder have been
> > > retrieved
> > > from Akonadi and sorted into threads.
> > > 
> > > During the process emails are constantly being fetched from Akonadi, and
> > > because KMail uses only one "channel" to talk to Akonadi, it can't send
> > > your request to mark an email as read until all messages are fetched and
> > > the channel is free again.
> > 
> > Thanks for the explanation.  As there is a graphic part to this process of
> > "marking as read", can't that be done whilst the actual update to the
> > email
> > storage is queued to be done once the "channel" becomes available again.
> 
> Theoretically, yes, but the code and design is quite complicated. Might
> require a lot of changes.
> 
> > Is
> > this "single channel" design a bit limiting, should there not be multi-
> > threaded access in this day and age? (i don't know anything about akonadi
> > really so i'm just throwing ideas in the air)
> 
> After a bit more check, it turned out that we already use two channels (one
> for fetching emails and one for writing changes), so the bottleneck is most
> probably on the Akonadi server, which is being too busy feeding KMail
> emails, and so it is unable to process the "Mark as read" request. I'll try
> to check whether we can optimize this somehow using priorities. Again,
> there are some related bug reports/feature requests regarding this.
> 
> Dan
> 
> > > I don't think there's anything we can do about it at this point, but in
> > > future we would like to make Akonadi and KMail smarter, so that they
> > > only
> > > fetch the emails you can see on the screen and then fetch more on demand
> > > as
> > > you scroll down. This will solve your problem, as well as many other
> > > performance and memory issues :-)
> > 
> > Sounds like a possible solution or work-around. I presume the idea of
> > caching the emails in the old "Mail" folders was dismissed.
> > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > > > regards
> > > > 
> > > > Ian
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