Bug 199266

Summary: DIMAP seems to load all emails to RAM.
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Marcus Hardt <marcus.hardt>
Component: disconnected IMAPAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: bjoern, kollix
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.11.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Marcus Hardt 2009-07-07 11:49:03 UTC 
Version:           1.11.4 (using 4.2.4 (KDE 4.2.4), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.28-10

Sometimes KMail eats up a lot of RAM and the GUI is unresponsive during this time.

I cannot 100% reproduce this ;-(

AFAICT is happens sometimes when moving mails from inbox to another folder. Sometimes it also happens when kmail was killed and I restart it.

My guess is that it reads all dimap mails into RAM. As I have ~7GB of mails in there and ~7.5GB RAM & SWAP this fits more or less, but the whole machine goes pretty slow.

Thanks for writing KMail, I love it!
Comment 1 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-01 23:39:34 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185147 ***