Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.0) I've imported all my Evolution mails to KMail. Unfortunately, my Evolutions mals are 248 Mb! It seems that once a folder (a mbox file...) is imported, KMailImporter... keep it in memory. So all RAM was filled little by little. And then all SWAP was fulled little by little. And then my computer begined to access disk all the time (perhapse to swap/unswap pages), CPU was unused, while memory and swap was 100% full. System responsiveness was very bad. After 10 minutes I managed to shutdown my computer without the brute force (to not damage my harddisk: always accessed by the system). Can you unload from the memory the folders you just imported? I was obliged to import my mails in two passes: - Import from Evolution as much as KMail can do - Stop it - Delete some folders in my Evolution Inbox - Restart computer - Continue to import Evolution mails And everything was OK. But it's not what a regular user could have done.
Assigning to correct component. I think it's a duplicate of a fixed issue, though.
How much memory have your machine? Can you try the current cvs version of kmail and kmailcvt? If the mbox is correct and not corrupted this problem should be fixed in the CVS (see: http://webcvs.kde.org/kdepim/kmail/kmkernel.cpp?rev=1.329&view=log ). Which platform you use?
> How much memory have your machine? 512 Mb of RAM. 251 Mb of SWAP. KMail/kmailcvt 3.4.0
I close the bug, verify please with CVS version and reopen if there is also a problem