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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#37653: kmail doesn't start with big mailboxes and index files missing
From:       matthias tarasiewicz <t () inode ! at>
Date:       2002-01-30 17:05:35
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On Tuesday 29 January 2002 21:32, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2002 20:13, t@inode.at wrote:
> > kmail has strange behavior when deleting the .indoes or .sorted files,
> > especially on big mailboxes, where it refuses to start (tested with 900mb
> > inbox) deleting all the mailbox files doesn't make any difference, kmail
> > refuses to start. after restarting kde, it will start again (when leaving
> > no mailbox files in the mail folder) -- same problem, when moving the
> > mail files back again.
>
> 900MB is quite huge, this might take half an hour or more to regenerate the
> index file. Maybe we really need a progress indicator for that.
>
ok, after 45minutes, it was starting on a 2gig mailbox -- progress indicators 
would make everything more clear.
but the strange thing is, when having loaded the mailbox, every change to 
some other folder takes quite some time. maybe some buffering (ram?) could 
save time here.

> > in general kmail seems to have problems with mixed mailboxes from older
> > versions and mostly crashes. maybe some problem with the swapdisk, which
> > is smaller than 900mb, but ram on the machine is 512mb, so that shouldn't
> > be the cause
>
> Actually KMail shouldn't read the 900MB into RAM, but you can watch this
> with for example top.
>
looks like the bugs i described are mostly because of .index files missing or 
too big mailboxes. isn't there any way to increase performace?


greetings
matthias tarasiewicz

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