On Friday 06 March 2015 19:50:35 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 06 March 2015 18:51:55 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 06 March 2015 12:24:18 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > > I'm not sure how you were able to use qdbus to control a TDE
> > > application...TDE uses DCOP and the equivalent command is:
> > > dcop kmail KMailIface checkMail
> > >
> > > Tim
> >
> > I wasn't Tim, I was controlling a KDE kmail, 1.13.5.  I'll post back
> > in a few to report how this is working, but after I finish a piece
> > of sugar free blueberry pie, ala mode with some no sugar added ice
> > cream. Feed bag time here at the ranchette.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> And, while it seems to be working, its also stuck in a loop, checking
> mail many times a second. I just checked the log that my script keeps,
> and there does not appear to be a stuck "firing pin".
>
> Is there some sort of an ack from kmail that this dcop thing uses to
> clear the buffer?  Looking in htop, my script and its inotifywait
> helper are both down at the bottom of the list, but kmail is burning
> 99 to 102% of an Athlon core. I did not restart it after killing the
> timed mail checks, so I'll do that next.
>
> Back in 5 or less.
>
A shutdown & restart of kmail seems to have fixed that. Everything is now 
running at 1 to 2% of a core now.  For a minute or 5, life is good, 
thank you, all who replied.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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