Bug 75046

Summary: eats all memory when reading a large number of messages
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Robert Voinea <rvoinea>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: crash    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Robert Voinea 2004-02-12 09:05:43 UTC 
Version:           1.6 (using KDE 3.2.0, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21

In my inbox I had about 1000 messages, most of them with large attachments (4-5Mb)... I Started reading them... and the Kontact/KMail jumped to 300Mb memory usage... eating up all the memory and swap and making my system unusable... so I had to reboot... Same behaviour in the KMail...
The messages were not pgp signed

Perhaps this is a memory leak...

I have 256Mb ram and same amount swap... P4/2.4GHz

KDE 3.2.0 /KMail 1.6 from contrib/Slackware 9.0 packages
Comment 1 Ladislav Strojil 2004-02-12 09:14:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75045 ***