Bug 563943

Summary:	kmail is awfully slow
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Forgotten User 6Bw0Ifx-X6 <forgotten_6Bw0Ifx-X6>
Component:	KDE4 Applications	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aosthof
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	openSUSE 11.2
Whiteboard:
Found By:	---	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Forgotten User 6Bw0Ifx-X6 2009-12-11 12:55:30 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091103 SUSE/3.5.5-1.1.2 Firefox/3.5.5

Well... kmail has never been a rabbit.
However, since OS11.2, it hangs all the time, and every action such as displaying a mail requires several (>10) seconds.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2010-01-04 08:28:16 UTC

Are you using KDE 4.3.x from openSUSE 11.2 or a newer version from the Build Service?

Comment 2 Forgotten User 6Bw0Ifx-X6 2010-01-04 09:15:09 UTC

I am using 4.3.4-1.5-i586 from obs/KDE

I will try to update to 4.3.4-1.16 and check if it goes any better.

Some comments:
I use it on a netbook. I have the feeling that kmail is slow when a monitor is connected to the netbook, whereas kmail works normally when the netbook is in "portable" mode. For the other applications I do not see much difference between the 2 settings (which was not the case with OS11.1)

Comment 3 Will Stephenson 2010-01-04 11:35:13 UTC

The part of the version string after the '-' is just the build number and is not significant for checking if a bug still exists.  

The display in use is unlikely to affect the speed of kmail. 

What kinds of addressbooks do you use?  If you have a remote addressbook that is slow or unreachable that could cause the kind of slowness you report.

Comment 4 Forgotten User 6Bw0Ifx-X6 2010-01-04 12:36:30 UTC

addressbook is local
kmail connects to pop3 servers

however, all the data files (eg addressbook and mail files) are linked from their default place to a place in my home dir:
.kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf -> ~/DataDir/std.vcf

Comment 5 Will Stephenson 2010-06-16 15:57:05 UTC

This was due to some slow Nepomuk queries that resolve email addresses to contacts, which have been fixed in KDE 4.4.   See openSUSE 11.3 if you do not use Build Service KDE 4.4.