Re: Possible akonadi problem?
On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 06:32:32 -0500
Brad Alexander <storm16@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Martin
> Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
>
> > I see that message here as well sometimes.
> > Mostly after some spikes in Akonadi
> > / MySQL activity (although MySQL is mostly
> > gone from CPU after recent perf work in
> > Akonadi server, see below).
> >
> > Then for me then KMail doesn´t respond
> > anymore to any requests. I.e. the GUI
> > still works, but mails are not displayed
> > anymore, just the blue waiting display,
> > folder switching works, but deleting mails or
> > moving to different folder just does not make
> > the actual actiion happen in the GUI. But at
> > the same time then I do not see any load on
> > Akonadi as well anymore. Sometimes the first
> > moves or deletes still work, after a delay of
> > 10 or 30 seconds, and its stops acting on my
> > requests after that. I find this really
> > difficult to describe conscively as various
> > symptoms show up.
> >
> > KMail seems to wait for Akonadi, yet Akonadi
> > seems idle. I have reported this
> > first as:
> >
> > [snip...]
>
>
> It happens several times meanwhile.
> >
> > I am currently using Akonadi server Git
> > c733429f4fa9696fb027ddc946e54f6bbb68deaf with
> > Millian´s and Dan´s massive performance
> > improvements regarding MySQL (which actually
> > do make a difference), but rest is 4.14.2.
> >
> > I see this message as well then.
> >
> > I didn´t follow up on the suggestions in that
> > thread how to diagnose it due to
> > other stuffs quite important as well. But
> > Ingo Klöcker found this behavior as
> > well.
> >
> > But hmm, there is one difference: KMail
> > looses the connection, for me its usually
> > enough to restart KMail – with making sure
> > kmail process really is gone in between –,
> > maybe restarting Akonadi doesn´t even work.
> >
> > So maybe the problem of Brad is a different
> > one.
> >
> > For me with my massive mail setup (about one
> > million mails in a huge local maildir, filled
> > via POP3, and an 30 day limited IMAP account
> > with about 30000-40000 mails, both some more
> > small POP3 accounts).
> >
> > Brad, what is the exact behavior you see?
> >
>
> I see pretty much the same behavior. I can
> restart akonadi, though, honestly, sometimes, I
> have to restart it a couple of times. I have
> taken to keeping it running in a screen
> session, so that I can restart it as needed.
>
> --b
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