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Re: kmail and gpg



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On Sunday 01 September 2002 9:25 pm, Russell Coker wrote:
> A problem that I have had with kmail in kde 2.0 and am now having with
> kmail in kde 3.0.3 is that it takes up lots of CPU time when launching gpg.
>
> When I do an operation that causes GPG to take some time (IE re-calculating
> the trust db because new signatures have been received for some keys) then
> kmail apparently goes into a spin loop waiting for a response from gpg. 
> The result is that for some minutes kmail gets 50% CPU time and gpg gets
> the other 50%.
>
> I then tried kill -stop on the kmail process, gpg then used >90% CPU time
> until it finished it's work and I then did kill -cont on kmail and
> everything was fine.
>
> Is there some way to reconfigure kmail to make it behave better?  Or is it
> just buggy?
>
Just buggy. There was a thread about this very issue very recently on the 
kmail mailing list. you can find archives at www.kde.org. It is "Bug#46406: 
Resolving GPG key owner is slow with large keyring" on 2002-08-12. You can 
also find it on bugs.kde.org.


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David Pashley
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