On Sunday 08 December 2019 04:06:14 David C. Rankin wrote: > On 12/07/2019 06:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'm forced to agree. But if I have to do that, its likely I'll just > > jump ship to claws or even (spit) t-bird. This has been bugging me > > off and on for at least 5 years, and I've been mostly ignored, sent > > hundreds of crash reports all to no avail as far as solving the > > problem is concerned. Paypal has no clue who Tim is, so I've not > > been able to contribute, which bothers the hell outta me as a firm > > believer in TANSTAAFL. Not having paid my dues, I don't feel like I > > can demand. > > Yes, > > I've followed on and off your kmail woes. From what you describe > this is a bug that should be fixed. kmail should not continually be > putting a load on the system resorting indexes, etc.. There should be > debugging that can be cranked up to cause TDE to spit out INFO level > messages for kmail that may give a better picture of what is going on. > > If the problem is that your mail store is too big for kmail to > handle without thinking it needs to reindex -- that's still a bug and > whether it is a Qt3 issue or kmail issue, both should be solveable > today. (just off hand I can see if a limit is INT_MAX how a 20G mail > store would be an issue), Regardless, whatever it triggering the > reindexing needs to be identified. > > Whatever was burning up the cores on your old box -- is still > causing the same mischief on your new box -- it's just doing a whole > lot more mischief a whole lot faster now.... That I think matches my swag on this, and it ought to be fixed. If anyone knows of a debug flag that would enable a window into this behaviour, I'm all ears, and can usually find and read logs. 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>