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Re: Issues with Enigmail @ Icedove and a huge keyring



Am 02.04.2015 um 14:37 schrieb Jonathan Dowland:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 12:15:44PM +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>> I've got a quiet big keyring (>2k keys inside it) and since last updates
>> of enigmail I'm recognizing issues with it. Ehenever it's about
>> verifying a signature Enigmail is starting a gpg2 process like that
>>
>> /usr/bin/gpg2 --charset utf-8 --display-charset utf-8 --batch --no-tty
>> --status-fd 2 --with-fingerprint --fixed-list-mode --with-colons --list-keys
>>
>> which consumes 100% of one core for quiet some time and is blocking the
>> signature thing. This is happening about sind update to 1.8.x of Enigmail.
>>
>> Before I report an issue upstream to Enigmail I'd like to ask you
>> whether some of you is experincing some similar issue and/or is might
>> having an idea for fixing/workaround.
> 
> Try (if possible) adding --no-auto-check-trustdb to the GPG2 invocation of
> enigmail, and separately cron a 'gpg --check-trustdb' (with possibly some of
> --batch or --no-tty etc. added). I'm not sure what an appropriate frequency for
> the cron should be, but gpg will not check the trust db even when asked if it
> doesn't think it necessary. (unless you add --yes).

I've tried it and it didn't irmpoe things much. I was able to put it
doen to 2 cases:
1) Decrypting and verifing and encrypted + signed mail
2) Creating a mail (and most likely searching for a fitting key) and
signing it -- most times only on first attempt.

Cheers,
Frank


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