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Re: [trinity-users] kmail crashing now unusable

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:23:44 +0200
Anno domini 2019 Wed, 19 Jun 15:48:24 -0400
 Gene Heskett scripsit:
> On Wednesday 19 June 2019 02:44:35 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 16 June 2019 11:05:43 am Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings;
> > >
> > > Over the last several days, kmail has gotten so unstable its not
> > > usable. Now tdewallet has also died, I have submitted 20+ crash
> > > reports, no reply, and I've no clue if it will even send this
> > > message. How about some help or an acnowlegement of the problem. 
> > > I've rebooted, even re-installed all of kmail to no avail. I've also
> > > run memtest about 3 full cycles, no errors.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Let me add a bit more info to this kmail thread.
> >
> > I just changed kernels on this machine, from 4.9.0.9-rt to 4.9.0.9,
> > without the rt.  Kmail always has a cow over to folders indices, so I
> > expected to get a message about spam and spam-hold which both get
> > touched by external scripts or by me moving messages around, but even
> > if a nuke all the index files and then start or restart kmail, it has
> > the rebuild done in 15 minutes or so.
> >
> > But not this time. And lsof |grep index|wc -l shows its gone
> > berzackers: gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep Mail|wc -l
> > 310
> > gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep Mail|wc -l
> > 310
> > gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep index|wc -l
> > 520
> > gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep index|wc -l
> > 638
> >  And it just keeps growing the number.  So I'm going to stop it, and
> > nuke then all. Then restart and time it.
> >
> Back to a stable kmail, but it crashed about 2 secs after the first 
> start.  With zero indices it took 1:31 to start, but its still using a 
> whole core at 100%, and the wc -l is growing by 10 or 20 almost 
> everytime I rerun the lsof to get a new count
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 220
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 240
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 260
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 270
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 270
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 280
> 
> And theres only about 41 directorys, but 2 of those have 16 and 18 
> subdirs so theres not quite 80 dirs all told.
> but there are 70147 msgs if I did it right, looks low.
> 
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 380
> 
> Ladies and Gentlemen, I think we have a bug.

Now this might not be a solution for you, but attorny prints out every email he receives and each he sends. then he build subdirectories of physical folders. Think he has 50 meters of them ...

Nik

> 
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> 
> >
> > Back later with the results.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett



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