Re: KMail freeze

["Sean J. Fraley" <sfraley@rhiannonweb.com>]

On Friday 14 January 2005 09:07 am, Jan L�ote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was quite happy when KDE 3.3.1 hit sarge and run a dist-upgrade as soon
> als possible, but since then, I have some serions problems with KMail. As
> soon as a I open KMail or another folder in KMail, CPU load rises up to
> 100% and KMail freezes. After a few minute of using every single CPU time,
> it could get, the KMail windows reacts, when I try to open it. But after a
> few seconds it continues to freeze.
>
> What may be wrong here?
>
> strace kmail
> (...)
> read(3, "\0\0\0\vDCOPServer\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\tQCString\0"..., 55) = 55
> write(3, "\1\2\1\0[\0\0\0m\0\0\0", 12)  = 12
> write(3, "\0\0\0\17anonymous-6701\0\0\0\0\vDCOPServe"..., 81) = 81
> write(3, "\0\0\0\6kmail\0", 10)         = 10
> read(3, "\2\3\0\0023\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
> read(3, "m\0\0\0", 4)                   = 4
> read(3, "\0\0\0\vDCOPServer\0\0\0\0\17anonymous-670"..., 51) = 51
> write(3, "\1\2\1\0_\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 12) = 12
> write(3, "\0\0\0\17anonymous-6701\0\0\0\0\6kmail\0\0\0\0"..., 61) = 61
> write(3, "\0\0\0\n/home/jan\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 34)
> = 34
> read(3, "\2\5\0\2!\0\0\0", 8)           = 8
> read(3, "\2\0\0\0", 4)                  = 4
> read(3, "\0\0\0\6kmail\0\0\0\0\17anonymous-6701\0\0\0\0"..., 33) = 33
> read(3, "\2\6\0\0021\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
> read(3, "\2\0\0\0", 4)                  = 4
> read(3, "\0\0\0\6kmail\0\0\0\0\17anonymous-6701\0\0\0\0"..., 49) = 49
> close(3)                                = 0
> exit_group(0)
>
> -freeze---
>
> After a while am able to enter my pop3-account data, then:
> (...)
> getuid32()                              = 1000
> getpid()                                = 6710
> write(3, "\1\2\1\0H\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 12) = 12
> write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\vDCOPServer\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\25regi"..., 53) = 53
> write(3, "\0\0\0\17anonymous-6710\0", 19) = 19
> read(3, "\2\3\0\0027\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
> read(3, "o\0\0\0", 4)                   = 4
> read(3, "\0\0\0\vDCOPServer\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\tQCString\0"..., 55) = 55
> write(3, "\1\2\1\0[\0\0\0o\0\0\0", 12)  = 12
> write(3, "\0\0\0\17anonymous-6710\0\0\0\0\vDCOPServe"..., 81) = 81
> write(3, "\0\0\0\6kmail\0", 10)         = 10
> read(3, "\2\3\0\0023\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
> read(3, "o\0\0\0", 4)                   = 4
> read(3, "\0\0\0\vDCOPServer\0\0\0\0\17anonymous-671"..., 51) = 51
> write(3, "\1\2\1\0_\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 12) = 12
> write(3, "\0\0\0\17anonymous-6710\0\0\0\0\6kmail\0\0\0\0"..., 61) = 61
> write(3, "\0\0\0\n/home/jan\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 34)
> = 34
> read(3, "\2\5\0\2!\0\0\0", 8)           = 8
> read(3, "\2\0\0\0", 4)                  = 4
> read(3, "\0\0\0\6kmail\0\0\0\0\17anonymous-6710\0\0\0\0"..., 33) = 33
> read(3, "\2\6\0\0021\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
> read(3, "\2\0\0\0", 4)                  = 4
> read(3, "\0\0\0\6kmail\0\0\0\0\17anonymous-6710\0\0\0\0"..., 49) = 49
> close(3)                                = 0
> exit_group(0)                           = ?
>
> -- freeze --
>
> Something seems to go wrong when calling exit_group(0). What is it for?
> What might be the issue?
>
> Keep smiling
> yanosz

Are you using any spam filtering software?  I am using spamassassin, and when 
I get around to downloading about a days worth of mail, it takes some time to 
run all of it through the filters.  The entire time that this is happening, 
kmail is blocked.

Sean

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