Bug#328445: korn/kio_mbox: large mboxes cause considerable system slowdown
Package: korn
Version: 4:3.4.2-1
Severity: important
I have some quite large mboxes used for sorting out incoming mail. In
previous versions of KDE I used korn to see how many new messages are
in each of the boxes, and it was working fine until I upgraded to the
current version of KDE. Now when I run korn, top shows that kio_mbox
processes use 100% CPU and load average gets over 2.5, and the systems
slows down considerably for several minutes. This repeats every time
korn rechecks the mboxes for new mail. I wonder what kio_mbox are
trying to do, but they're doing it very inefficiently, because e.g.
gbuffy is working without problems on the same mailboxes.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages korn depends on:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.4.2-2 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2 4:3.4.2-3 core libraries for all KDE applica
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.4.2-1 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-7 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.4-8 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.0.1-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 compression library - runtime
korn recommends no packages.
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