Version: (using KDE 4.2.96) OS: Linux Installed from: SuSE RPMs I'm using Opensuse 4.3 RC1 Release 4.2.96 "Release 142" & Kmail version 1.12.0. I have an email with 2 large PDF attachments of 3.1MB and 1.5MB. I have set the appearance view to "display beside the message pane". Now if I start Kmail (and not Kontact) the memory consumed through htop is approx 60MB. If I click on this email with the large attachment, the memory jumps upto 90MB and if I click on a normal text message it comes back to 60MB. This is reproducible everytime.I can give provide a screenshot and any other information if needed.
Can reproduce it: having a small mail current gives: VmData: 147380 kB clicking on a mail with a 5.6MB attachment gives: VmData: 175200 kB going back to the previous small mail: VmData: 147380 kB (as it was) So now the question remains, why ... ?
Right now, to show a mail, the mail is copied several times (3 or 4 times). This will be solved when kmail uses akonadi (probably kde 4.5).
It might be realted to bug #110574
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 110574 ***