forwarded 328445 http://bugs.kde.org/118926 close 328445 4:3.5.0 thanks On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:44:58PM +0200, Hanus Adler wrote: > 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. this is upstream bug 118926, and upstream claim it's fixed for KDE 3.5. Note that over a certain size, mbox are inneficient, because they need to be parsed from line 1, whereas maildirs is only a matter of directory listing (for the 'new mail' problem). so if your mailboxes are *really* large, you may want to switch to maildirs anyway. Cheers, -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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