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elinar at ihug
Oct 10, 2004, 9:18 PM
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Hi all.

Could anyone offer some sugestions as to how I could troubleshoot kmail?
I haven't seen anything obvious in the forums so far so it seems might
be something in my own setup.

What I can tell so far is that it seems to freeze and tie up the CPU
although not critically. This happens generally after being left
running for an extended time eg overnight, after I've locked the
screensaver. Has also happened after leaving it for a couple of hours
one afternoon.

Have tried
* revdep-rebuild - was clear.
* recompiling kdenetworking with several diferent use options, although
havn't played with CFLAGS yet. ( currently -pipe -w -O3 -march=pentium4
-mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx)

Killing kmail from the System Guard program and then restarting it seems
to bring it back to normal operation.

Once it just crashed from under me, while I was using it, and I got the
trace window going but output was useless becuse binaries were
stripped.

Using kde 3.3, nptl threads, disabled all crypts such as gpg etc.

I am using the setings from kde 3.2, and would be loath to remove those
completely as I have many filter set up. Should I try this? Doesnt seem
like they should cause CPU hogging...

TIA - Glenn
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Re: kmail instabilities. [ In reply to ]
lists at ptfd
Oct 11, 2004, 7:53 AM
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On Monday 11 October 2004 05:34 am, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Monday 11 October 2004 05:18, Glenn Enright wrote:
> > What I can tell so far is that it seems to freeze and tie up the CPU
> > although not critically. This happens generally after being left
> > running for an extended time eg overnight, after I've locked the
> > screensaver. Has also happened after leaving it for a couple of hours
> > one afternoon.
> >
> > Have tried
> > * revdep-rebuild - was clear.
> > * recompiling kdenetworking with several diferent use options,
> > although havn't played with CFLAGS yet. ( currently -pipe -w -O3
> > -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx)
> >
> > Killing kmail from the System Guard program and then restarting it
> > seems to bring it back to normal operation.
>
> For me, kmail last worked well in KDE-3.1.4. With 3.2 and now 3.3,
> kmail freezes while checking for new mail and unfreezes when
> transmission is complete. I get occasional excessive CPU usage like
> yours, where I kill kmail and restart it to recover.
>
> I'm not using NPTL because win4lin won't run with that enabled. As far
> as I can see all we can do is wait for the KDE developers fo bring out
> a fix.
Peter,
I don´t want to hijack this, but I am pretty sure I set NPTL a few months ago,
and w4l is working on my machine fine?
I´ll verify this.

Mike
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Re: kmail instabilities. [ In reply to ]
lists at ptfd
Oct 11, 2004, 7:56 AM
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On Monday 11 October 2004 12:18 am, Glenn Enright wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Could anyone offer some sugestions as to how I could troubleshoot kmail?
> I haven't seen anything obvious in the forums so far so it seems might
> be something in my own setup.
>
> What I can tell so far is that it seems to freeze and tie up the CPU
> although not critically. This happens generally after being left
> running for an extended time eg overnight, after I've locked the
> screensaver. Has also happened after leaving it for a couple of hours
> one afternoon.
>
> Have tried
> * revdep-rebuild - was clear.
> * recompiling kdenetworking with several diferent use options, although
> havn't played with CFLAGS yet. ( currently -pipe -w -O3 -march=pentium4
> -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx)
>
> Killing kmail from the System Guard program and then restarting it seems
> to bring it back to normal operation.
>
> Once it just crashed from under me, while I was using it, and I got the
> trace window going but output was useless becuse binaries were
> stripped.
>
> Using kde 3.3, nptl threads, disabled all crypts such as gpg etc.
>
> I am using the setings from kde 3.2, and would be loath to remove those
> completely as I have many filter set up. Should I try this? Doesnt seem
> like they should cause CPU hogging...

I have something like this occasionaly, like a couple of times a week. I have
not got it traced down to a particular action but for me it is usually while
I am deleting large numbers of e-mails, or deleting e-mails while db is
running. It just locks. I can kill it with ksysguard, or just multiple clicks
on the x (close window) then wait about 30 seconds and it will give you a not
responding dialog. After restarting kontact it is fine. I wonder if it is
kontact or kmail..

Mike
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Re: kmail instabilities. [ In reply to ]
lists at ptfd
Oct 11, 2004, 7:58 AM
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On Monday 11 October 2004 12:18 am, Glenn Enright wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Could anyone offer some sugestions as to how I could troubleshoot kmail?
> I haven't seen anything obvious in the forums so far so it seems might
> be something in my own setup.
>
> What I can tell so far is that it seems to freeze and tie up the CPU
> although not critically. This happens generally after being left
> running for an extended time eg overnight, after I've locked the
> screensaver. Has also happened after leaving it for a couple of hours
> one afternoon.
>
> Have tried
> * revdep-rebuild - was clear.
> * recompiling kdenetworking with several diferent use options, although
> havn't played with CFLAGS yet. ( currently -pipe -w -O3 -march=pentium4
> -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx)
>
> Killing kmail from the System Guard program and then restarting it seems
> to bring it back to normal operation.
>
> Once it just crashed from under me, while I was using it, and I got the
> trace window going but output was useless becuse binaries were
> stripped.
>
> Using kde 3.3, nptl threads, disabled all crypts such as gpg etc.
>
> I am using the setings from kde 3.2, and would be loath to remove those
> completely as I have many filter set up. Should I try this? Doesnt seem
> like they should cause CPU hogging...

I have something like this occasionaly, like a couple of times a week. I have
not got it traced down to a particular action but for me it is usually while
I am deleting large numbers of e-mails, or deleting e-mails while db is
running. It just locks. I can kill it with ksysguard, or just multiple clicks
on the x (close window) then wait about 30 seconds and it will give you a not
responding dialog. After restarting kontact it is fine. I wonder if it is
kontact or kmail..

Mike
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Re: kmail instabilities. [ In reply to ]
elinar at ihug
Oct 11, 2004, 9:33 AM
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:09 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Monday 11 October 2004 10:34, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > For me, kmail last worked well in KDE-3.1.4.  With 3.2 and now 3.3,
> > kmail freezes while checking for new mail and unfreezes when
> > transmission is complete.  I get occasional excessive CPU usage
> > like yours, where I kill kmail and restart it to recover.
>
> <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91108>

cool thanks for that. At least I know im not the only one. ver 3.2 was
completly stable for me, even over more than a week continuous running.

I've tried recompiling with debug, prob need to do same with kdelibs and
qt, then will see what happens.

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