My experience with kmail (was:Goodbye for now, kmail)

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sun, 2017-05-14 at 13:50 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> Hello 
> I just want thank you for who alert me for akonodi consume cpu
> problems
> , since a year ago I started have problems, the most notable was with
> firefox very slow consuming high level of CPU more than 100%, all
> system slow , after a while I discover that clean kde cache [1]  ,
> and reboot fix the problem for a while , problems usually just
> appears when I go to a place where internet is not stable ( some
> offices that internet goes down etc) but after do (5 days ago):
> 
> 	akonadictl stop
> 
> all problems are gone, my laptop now is bullet prove , Firefox
> doesn't
> consume more than 15% of CPU , even when in stress, when before
> consume
> more than 100% of one core , I got 4 . 

After check, not only akonadi consume 100% CPU I some circumstances,
also firefox have the same symptoms, it happens when iwlwifi (intel
wireless) goes down ...  

> [1] cd /home/sergio/.kde; ls -l 
> rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache-sergio /run/user/500/ksocket-sergio
> /tmp/kde-sergio 
> 
> Conclusion, looks to me that akonodi starts something like "a thread
> looping" which is not visible in top command nor another system
> monitor
> tools , but can affect all system ... , have some way to debug the
> problem could be useful. 
> 
> Best regards,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.