Bug 84159

Summary:	search algorithm is painfully slow
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Rainer Muehlhoff <r.muehlhoff>
Component:	search	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Rainer Muehlhoff 2004-06-28 15:29:37 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7) 
OS:                Linux

My inbox (maildir) has about 4000 mails and searching it with the search dialog is very slow, even if I only search for a single word in the subject line. 
It takes about 40 secs. on a 1.4 GHz Pentium M processor. 

I wouldn't complain about this if not e.g. Ximian Evolution does those searches much, much faster: 3 secs for a 4000 mails folder.

Comment 1 Till Adam 2004-06-28 23:54:44 UTC

Is your mail store on nfs, maybe? Searches in 5000 to 10000 mail folders take a few seconds here, so I can't really reproduce your problem.

Comment 2 Rainer Muehlhoff 2004-06-29 00:13:12 UTC

no, just reiserfs. 
And anyway: Other mail clients can definitely do those searches significantly faster (even on the very same maildir folders I use).

Comment 3 Don Sanders 2004-07-01 09:26:02 UTC

Subject searches take about 1 second per 1000 messages here. ext2 
filesystem dual 1GHz, forget what the hard drive specs are.

This reinforces my suspicion there is something special about your KDE 
configuration. You could try creating a new user account, setting up 
KMail and seeing if the problem is reproduceable.

Don.

Comment 4 Ismail Donmez 2004-07-20 21:07:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79808 ***