On Tuesday 15 October 2019 15:01:14 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Hi Gene! > > Are you sure your hardware is OK? > > Nik > drives are fairly fresh as I always install to a new drive so I can get stuff off the old one, cmos battery replaced just a few months ago. Nothing is complaining. 29days uptime. kmail is using much of a cpu but not 100% continuous as I've no doubt it busy rebuilding indice files yet. crash at restart after sorting stuff for about a minute. crashed, reopened instantly and now I expect it will idle back when the indice recreation is finally done. the gkrellm display now looks like a normal but busy machine, no big green 100% blocks jumping from core to core. > Anno domini 2019 Tue, 15 Oct 13:00:44 -0400 > > Gene Heskett scripsit: > > Greetings all; > > > > Are you send those to /dev/null? I've sent a whole bunch of them. > > > > These crashes always seem to be preceded by a couple days of a kmail > > session burning up a core of 4 cores, bouncing to the next available > > core, at 99 to 100% at 15 second or so intervals. > > > > These seem to be related to kmail finding trash files in its > > database, causing problems while re-indexing. I have two folders > > which are subfolders with a given years messages manually sorted > > into that years corpus. > > > > When I relaunch kmail after one of these crashes, I am getting > > advisories that so-and-so has an index problem, and its generally > > the top level folder, and 2 or 3 of its subfolders that are named. > > And the older folders are slowly being emptied, as in messages are > > disappearing despite having no expiry set up. > > > > Can anything be done, or is there something I can check-uncheck > > someplace? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>