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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#39626: kmail silently (!) stops saving huge attachments after ~ 1MB is written
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <haeckel () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-21 21:23:23
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On Thursday 21 March 2002 20:36:20, ach@mpe.mpg.de wrote:
>
> A user reported problems saving big (> 10 MB) attachments
> with kmail (first observed my him end last year with KDE 2.2.2).

KMail is not very memory effective with huge attachments, this is a known 
problem and still hasn't changed, but it is worked on. However besides being 
ineffective it should work.

Are you running out of RAM or not?

> Kmail stops silently after ~ 1MB is written without(!!)
> any notification of the problem!  I've verified it

I just saved a 60MB attachment without a problem (KDE from CVS).
At least all my 512MB RAM really were used for this task and were not only 
idle as most of the other time.

>     1220448 Mar 20 11:49 JB2001 Sternzyklen_111201.doc.kmail
>    19527168 Mar 20 11:51 JB2001 Sternzyklen_111201.doc.mutt
>
> and the mbox file (sorry 14Mb) with the message:
>
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/tmp/big-attms-broken.mbox.gz

Well, I get:

michael@btp8d24:~> ls -l JB*
-rw-r--r--    1 michael  users    19527168 Mär 21 22:10 JB2001 
Sternzyklen_111201.doc

On my university computer, a PII 233 with 128MB RAM and KDE 2.2.2 that is.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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