On Friday 29 March 2019 08:16:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > I am going thru a phase where one of my kmail folders is about to roll > over the 65,536 for number of msgs. > > Unforch as it approaches this it goes thru a phase where a group of > messages is not being marked as they are being read, so everytime I > leave that folder after having read the same 28 (this mornings count) > messages for about the 10th time, and it does mark them read as I > re-read them, but when I come back to that folder, it takes 30 secs or > so to scan it for unread, and them marks them as unread again. > Doing an ls -l on Mail/emc/cur shows these files without the > appendages as follows: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9223 Mar 27 08:03 1553688235.6391.LiBdm:2,S > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9246 Mar 27 08:16 1553688964.6391.BJZIy:2,RS > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9322 Mar 27 08:50 1553691034.6391.5xr6g:2,S > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8944 Mar 27 09:16 1553692607.6391.0Q1hQ > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 10866 Mar 27 14:06 1553709994.6005.a5pLa > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 11497 Mar 27 14:18 1553710720.6005.jKZVa > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 10992 Mar 27 14:42 1553712166.6005.RBD79 > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 12402 Mar 27 14:55 1553712913.6005.pCJ8s > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 10043 Mar 27 15:52 1553716351.6005.9yXfM > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8038 Mar 27 16:40 1553719225.6005.V1wmO > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9095 Mar 27 17:04 1553720673.6005.nsaQf > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9384 Mar 27 17:07 1553720854.6005.zJ0nJ > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 11269 Mar 27 19:35 1553729726.6005.SnEOl > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 14813 Mar 27 20:11 1553731902.6005.CwKRo > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 11731 Mar 27 20:29 1553732987.6005.H6Oq1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8933 Mar 27 21:11 1553735515.6005.O3hqS > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8889 Mar 27 21:39 1553737161.6005.vdlh5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9105 Mar 27 22:00 1553738447.6005.Jrmmh > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 12810 Mar 28 16:16 1553804210.9481.5wDVe > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9690 Mar 28 16:16 1553804211.9481.FXlrf > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8851 Mar 28 16:16 1553804213.9481.RFXOf > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 7964 Mar 28 16:16 1553804216.9481.0ysrQ > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9512 Mar 28 16:16 1553804217.9481.1c0Gn > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8792 Mar 28 16:16 1553804217.9481.hBg3G > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9021 Mar 28 16:16 1553804217.9481.ODcCm > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8846 Mar 28 16:16 1553804217.9481.xLM3g > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 7845 Mar 28 17:33 1553808826.9481.epVh2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8826 Mar 28 17:37 1553809025.9481.Y4qD9 > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 7956 Mar 28 22:04 1553825086.9481.alSnz > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8934 Mar 28 22:04 1553825087.9481.aw1c0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 11298 Mar 29 01:43 1553838220.9481.v5Iqy > > Does anyone have a clue how I might fix this. I just did a mark all as > read, clears the displayed count, without it showing in the next ls > -l. > > The current msg count is 60103 with these 27 once again claimed to be > unread. And from past experience with another list folder, it will > eventually get well, but will be a pita until the message count passes > another "magic boundary" which I don't recall the value of. > > kmail has also, according to htop, taken to using 100% of a cpu for > half an hour at a time as it tries to fix thatever has gotten out of > kilter. > > Thank you. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Now to add the final insult of this crazy story, I looked at, but changed nothing in the emc folders propertries, but instead of clicking on cancel, I clicked on "OK" which took it about a minute and I think its fixed. Had there been no changes to commit, I would have thought the response would have been instant, to have it lock up kmails gui for a minute or more, tells me something did get re-written, but I've no clue what. I wonder if excedrin has a number for this headache? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>