Switching from Kmail2 to Thunderbird system on Oneiric 11.10

[Valter Mura]

Il 22/10/2011 12:27, Mark Greenwood ha scritto:
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> On 22 Oct 2011, at 11:15, Valter Mura wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I received this answer, could be an usable way?
>>
>> Ciao
>>
>> -------- Messaggio originale --------

--cut--

>> Well,
>>
>> not that bad here, but probably similar situation with a 9 year old P4 Laptop with 2GB of RAM.
>> The workaround was easy in terminal: sudo chmod -x /urs/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_*
>> after I uninstalled strigi.
>
> Oh now that is *really* cunning :) I suspect it would stop KMail from working though?
>

As I'm presently not using Kontact and Kmail, if they not solve the 
situation, the problem shouldn't exist...
I'm really thinking to remove the entire PIM packet... for now.

>>
>> Now everything boots fast, emails are read fast, everything is much smoother, no unresponsive desktop, ...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ingo
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:24:01 Valter Mura wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> with regret, I can say I have tried everything for my poor system, but
>>> it cannot afford such a heavy workload.
>>>
>>> My System (very old with some updates): Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz / Ram: 1 GB /
>>> Video Card: ATI 512 MB
>>>
>>> History: I was coming from Natty 11.04 and Kmail-1. Everything was going
>>> smooth. Not so fast, obviously. but I could also keep enabled the
>>> desktop effects without problems. Swap (3 GB in total), when necessary,
>>> increased up to 4/5% on total (I used to keep open Kmail, Amarok, rekonq
>>> or FF, Lokalize at the same time). RAM on startup at abt 45/50%
>>>
>>> My mail: 4 accounts (POP3) with a total of abt 40,000 mails (I deleted
>>> the unneeded ones)
>>>
>>> My system after the update started the migration to the new Kmail
>>> system: it failed, but I succeeded to run it manually.
>>> It started the migration and the SYNCHRONIZATION. From this moment on,
>>> my system has been poorly overloaded, with no way to stop this hell (for
>>> me) "machine" which is Akonadi and its agents: (my poor and old) CPU the
>>> most of time at 100% of load, not for few hours but for DAYS, swap
>>> increased up to 50% (!); RAM always at 80/90%; activities and actions
>>> extremely slowed down.
>>>
>>> Ok, I've been wrong in something. So I deleted my accounts, setup them
>>> again, trying to "clean" the system (luckily, mail servers I use don't
>>> delete mail by default).
>>> Now I tried to setup Gmail as Imap: worst than ever. Kmail couldn't
>>> afford folders/labels of this size (thousands of mails). I deleted the
>>> Imap account and re-setup the POP3 one. No way to solve the huge
>>> workload. And what about opening a mail folder? No way to do that,
>>> unless after few hours.
>>>
>>> Akonadi and mysql daemon seemed to be allied against my system.


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