mibadt
May 1st, 2009, 10:39 AM
Hi,
I'm on a fresh installed Kubuntu Jaunty (with a separate /home partition migrated from ver 8.10).
Although all my KMail (ver 1.11.2 under KDE 4.2) folders are fully compacted, I recently "suffer" from the following flamboyance:
1. Once I open (even after fresh boot) Kontact the system is (still) responsive as usual.
2. The moment I click (in KMail) check mail (I have 3 accounts and 3 identities), the hard drive begins to "work" furiously" (even when I have NO new mail messages in any account and no pending message in outbox) for about 2 minutes. During this period KMail is hardly responsive (with about 10 sec response time for mouse folder selections), although I can easily switch to other open applications which remain responsive. Running top at this time shows kontact using 30-50% of my CPU, yet NO swap used (I have 2 GB RAM), while all other processes behave "nice" (resource usage-wise). Once the disk stops grinding, kontact's CPU usages also declines to a normal 3-4% and stays there.
Any idea what's wrong, and how can I get a responsive KMail from start?
Thanks up front!
Regards,
Michael Badt
I'm on a fresh installed Kubuntu Jaunty (with a separate /home partition migrated from ver 8.10).
Although all my KMail (ver 1.11.2 under KDE 4.2) folders are fully compacted, I recently "suffer" from the following flamboyance:
1. Once I open (even after fresh boot) Kontact the system is (still) responsive as usual.
2. The moment I click (in KMail) check mail (I have 3 accounts and 3 identities), the hard drive begins to "work" furiously" (even when I have NO new mail messages in any account and no pending message in outbox) for about 2 minutes. During this period KMail is hardly responsive (with about 10 sec response time for mouse folder selections), although I can easily switch to other open applications which remain responsive. Running top at this time shows kontact using 30-50% of my CPU, yet NO swap used (I have 2 GB RAM), while all other processes behave "nice" (resource usage-wise). Once the disk stops grinding, kontact's CPU usages also declines to a normal 3-4% and stays there.
Any idea what's wrong, and how can I get a responsive KMail from start?
Thanks up front!
Regards,
Michael Badt