Unhappy with Akonadi

[Ianseeks]

On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:39:08 BST Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Martin Steigerwald - 12.09.21, 17:52:14 CEST:
> > I use PostgreSQL.
> > 
> > Still it often enough is unbearable.
> > 
> > One IMAP account that I limited from 30 to 7 days server-side by using
> > "find -delete", cause Akonadi would just insist to synchronize inbox
> > needlessly a lot of times, blocking deleting mails and moving mails
> > in KMail for even for local maildir access for minutes and longer.
> 
> In addition to that displaying a folder with about 40000 mails is still 
> very slow before KMail shows anything.

I'm just guessing here.  I find kmail a lot slower when you have display formatting like threading etc on the folders because kmail seems to reformat the view when you enter
the folder for the first time. 
 
> Thus I moved some 13000 mails to a different folder and waited more than 
> 7 minutes for that operation to complete:
> 
> [Akonadi] [Bug 443095] New: Moving mails to a different folder is very 
> slow
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/443095
> 
> I really hope one day I am able to use KMail without micro managing 
> things for having a performance that is at least barely bearable.
> 
> This is on a ThinkPad T14 AMD Gen 1 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U 8 core 
> processor with hyperthreading, 32 GiB of RAM and 2TB Samsung 980 Pro 
> SSD. Taking more than 7 minutes to move 13000 mails on that machine 
> without even utilizing at least one full core to the maximum and without 
> even using the SSD to its full capability is kind of ridiculous.
> 
> Especially when KMail is basically not usable for anything else during 
> that operation.
> 
> I know every developer works on what they like. And I am grateful for 
> any improvement they implement. It is not on me to tell what they should 
> do. Yet I still think that it would be best to stop all feature work on 
> KDEPIM and Akonadi and fix the outstanding performance and reliability 
> issues first.
> 
> It is not that any of these issues are new. They are there since the 
> switch of KDEPIM to be Akonadi based.
> 
> Best,
> 


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