Version: 1.8.1 (using KDE 3.4.1, compiled sources) Compiler: gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728 OS: FreeBSD (amd64) release 5.4-STABLE Deleting 12 messages from an IMAP folder (which in my setup involves moving them into local Trash) just took around 20 seconds (which is fine) during which kmail kept using about 42% of my Opteron: 21516 mi 123 0 202M 86424K RUN 0:41 42.14% 42.14% kmail What can kmail possibly be doing? One would think, it ought to be sitting in some select() somewhere most of the time...
Deleting 6000+ messages from a folder in a DIMAP account starts with a rate of 1-2 msgs/sec on a P-IV 2.8 GHz machine. The rate increases depending on the decrease of the number of msgs in the folder.
This might be related to bug 87857.
You're right. Thanks for pointing out. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87857 ***