On Thursday 20 May 2010 01:02:59 Dave Stevens wrote: > Hi, > > I have kmail 1.13.2 running with KDE 4.4.2. Recently (for about two > weeks) the performance has been really dreadful. It routinely drives the > load average on the system to about 1.4 or 1.5, takes up about 90% of a > cpu and generally makes the whole system only marginally useful. I can > easily use webmail to communicate but that's not why IO have Kmail > installed. I don't know what bits are responsible for this behavior and > don't know where to start looking. This seems (as I recall) to have > started with the KDE 4.4.0 release and has been rather sliding since > then. I use maildir format mailboxes and there has been no sudden > increase in the number of emails I get or send. If I let kmail alone for > a few hours it gets somewhat better. I suspect an indexing program, I > suppose akonadi? or nepomuk? I seem to have 8 instances of nepomuk > running. Where should I be looking for clues? I noticed something similar before but I don't see this anymore. I am running 4.4.3 (although I am not sure this is the culprit for the good behaviour of kmail now). > Dave