Re: kmail is slow...
Stupid question, but have you tried Evolution? I am a pine man myself,
used it since 1994, but if I had to use a GUI tool, I would use Evolution.
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Alain Bosch wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I fully understand what you mean, but i doubt that's where the problem comes
> from.
>
> It's running very nicely with the following software
>
> Forte / Applix 5 / Opera / Mozilla
> Agent under wine
> Nethack ;)
> Tomcat/Apache/Postgres
>
> Not every app at the same time, i do not want to shoot in my foots...
>
> I also patched the kernel to avoid swapping with Rick Van Riels patches (the
> former VM)
>
> 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.2% user, 0.8% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle
>
> Mem: 386124K total, 296320K used, 89804K free, 76888K buffers
> Swap: 326080K total, 26224K used, 299856K free, 125256K cached
>
> SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 29324 28M 11524 S 0.1 7.5 1:03 kmail
>
> And as you see it's not a memory nor a swap problem
>
> It's an all SCSI system except the burner and the DVD.
>
> /dev/sda2 1757080 1686812 70268 97% /
> /dev/sda1 28124 1387 25285 6% /boot
> /dev/sdb1 1066576 689736 376840 65% /home
>
> There's plenty of space left for the temporary files of the mail software
>
> The video card should be a well supported one Matrox G200 running in 16bits
> depth at 1152x864.
>
> I decided to fully switch my desktop to Linux, servers are all linux in my
> company.
>
> So imported a 3 years long email folders hierarchy with Eudora2mbx
> (http://www.jjminer.org/eud2mbox/) with a full hierarchy of folders,
> usually there are only 10 mails in the Inbox. Filters are cleaning up the
> mess that comes from my 5 POP accounts....
>
> 115 folders, 85MB of data
>
> Hardware... OK
> Software... OK
> Software usage ... OK
>
> I compacted the hierarchy... emptyed trash...
>
> So I suppose that there must be a problem with Kmail as a standalone app
> without the KDE desktop or something else is making mess. AFAIK
>
> Do not know where, this is why i'm asking.
>
> I'd like something as easy as Eudora and avoid using Mutt or Pine.
>
> Sylpheed would have been fine.. but Kmail has some very good features
> with paar to Eudora (Filters, HTML... ease of use)
>
> Thanks for your suggestions anyway. ;)
>
>
>
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