| Summary: | eats all memory when reading a large number of messages | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kmail | Reporter: | Robert Voinea <rvoinea> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | alex.danila.web, bjoern, jlp |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | triaged |
| Version: | 1.6 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Robert Voinea
2004-02-12 09:05:05 UTC
*** Bug 75046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Sorry, but this is not a crash. Please watch KMail's memory usage while you read the large messages and tell us your findings. I've been experiencing something similar on KDE 3.2.1 from Debian unstable. VmSize and VmRss (as reported by K System Guard) increase when either accessing a PGP signed message (VmRss += 20, most of the time) and when accessing a mail with a large attachement (VmRss += some larger amount). I haven't been able to to trigger this reproducably however: It doesn't seem to be related to whether a message has already been viewed since Kontact was started or not. Over the time VmRss will grow considerably, I observed a value > 80,000 after having Kontact running for two days. The workaround is to simply restart Kontact every other day. Is this reproducable with kmail 1.7? I am experiencing this problem on KDE 3.3.2 so this bug is still present in the version of kmail that is included with this version of KDE. When I moved ~/Mail to ~/Mail.old then kmail can start up so it is something to do with the size of the mail folder. My Mail folder was only 130MB which is not really that big so this is quite a serious problem with kmail. I am using kmail version 1.7.2. I see this behavior no more in kmail 1.8... I guess it was fixed... Sorry, but I still see this behaviour in 1.8. I have seen this behaviour when saving a whole load of pictures I had emailed to my gmail account from my holliday. It looks like memory usage increases when just viewing the messages with the attached pictures (each message is about 6MB), but the problem is much worse when you actually save the attachments using "Save all attachments" from the context menu in the message structure pane. I have seen the memory usage of contact gone up to over 1 GB, which is when my system starts to protest and becomes unusable. It seems like this problem is NOT fixed. It happened again. I use KMail-1.8 on Gentoo / KDE 3.5.1. I started to sort my mails, and after a few hundreds, it eat up all my memory, making the system unusable, util the kernel killed the process (it was kontact, but running the kmail kpart). I have to mention that some of my mails are GPG Signed / Encrypted. My system is an Athlon 1GHz / 512MB RAM. For a few days, I seem to have this bug behaviour of Kmail as well. I am using version 1.8.2. As soon as I am browsing through a certain folder (imap), kmail is freezing my computer. Nothing works anymore. No ssh possible! Just a reboot! I seem to have the same problem: I have KMail 1.3.1 (KDE 3.5.1 Level "a" Suse 10.1) on an IBM x31 thinkpad. And my KMail is very slow: pressing next messages leads to about one minute HD-symbol lightning and 10% personal cpu load and 15 % system cpu load KMail VM-Size: 105 000 Mail folder size is 400MB Related to bug #110574, not sure if it is quite the same. I'm having a similar issue (cf. A T Somers's comment #8) when saving all attachments of messages. Kmail memory usage grows about the size of saved attachments and never decrease. When saving a lot of attachments, I have to restart kmail... It's been like this ever since I started using kmail, which means for about 3 years. Actually using 1.9.7. *** Bug 159214 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I've checked this with KMail from KDE SVN r881890 (to be in KDE 4.2). I currently have 29500 unread email in my test inbox and I clicked on many of those to try to get memory usage high. Unfortunately I don't have so much messages with pictures so I couldn't check with these. During all this time memory consumption was in reasonable limits (135 MiB memory and 50 MiB shared). So if someone could check again with KMail from KDE 4.1 or SVN and who has a lot pictures it would be great. Well, I have inboxes with 6000 mails and don't experience high memory usage anymore - although I'm remembering having had it with earlier version. As no one reports this for one year, I consider this fixed until someone reports the opposite. |