Re: kmail is slow...

[Alain Bosch <alainbosch@free.fr>]

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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