12 Jan
2019
12 Jan
'19
7:45 p.m.
On Saturday 12 January 2019 14:24:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On Friday 11 January 2019 11:16:51 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Another bit of info: mc see's the dot directories, and in exploring for
oddball trash, I found indice files that were not related to the
directory they were in and I deleted them all, then restarted kmail,
which of course complained about this "emc" directories indice file, so
I assume it would rebuild, then open kmails gui. But when it had done
so, there is not an indice file visible, so I am now wondering if all
these empty directories can be nuked.
But before I do that, I'll restart kmail again to see if it now complains
about the emc directory.
On Friday 11 January 2019 10:21:43 Stefan Krusche
wrote:
Further info: A read email in this directory doesn't get a :2,S
appended to its filename. Adding that by hand converts it into a read
mail, apparently forever.
What can be made of that? The directory currently has:
gene@coyote:~/Mail/emc/cur$ ls -l |wc -l
58868
files in it.
But another even bigger directory:
gene@coyote:~/Mail/emc/cur$ ls -l ../../coco/cur|wc -l
107784
has no such problems now for several years. It did have a similar
problem when it was about that size back when it was the old kde
version.
Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2019 schrieb Gene
Heskett:
Well, I just had htop send a terminate to the highest process # of 5
copies of kmail it can see. Killed it all.
Restarted it from the tde most popular app list, see 2 copies
running with both useing some cpu. and it reports the same bad index
for one folder at restart. At this point I see 2 copies of kmail
running, but when it has rebuilt the index for the emc directory,
which currently holds a bit north of 58k messages, then I see 5
copies running, but only the first copy is actually showing cpu
time. And its
resurrecting read messages as new, unread. I can cycle thru them,
reducing the unread count to zero, but then go to another list, and
come back after having read its unread, and by then this folder has
the same 3 (could be 40+) that I've already read and replied to, are
once again marked unread. I've checked perms and such but I own the
whole several gigabyte corpus of email, so I can't point any fingers
at that for a cause.
So whats doing it?
This has been over the years, an ongoing problem when the number of
messages in a given directory is in the modulo 60000 range. I have
another list thats nearly 130k messages, gave me an identical
problem for about a month about 18 months back. Then it got well,
and hasn't done it in quite a spell now. Note that I abuse kmail a
bit, I do have a procmail recipe or 3 that put bad stuff directly in
the spam folder, and an sa-learn script that cleans out the
spam-hold directory, feeds the spam to sa-learn and then moves the
spam to a spam-hold folder that I review daily in case I want to
rescue something miss-filed, so I am used to a spam and spam-hold
index's needing a rebuild, but thats rarely more than 10 messages in
either folder so that pair of indices being rebuilt is only a second
or so
Now this started up about a week ago. And I thought maybe this was a
good time to see if we can spot the rat somehow. Greetings all;
On the next kmail update would it be possible to add a popup for
the case of the indice fixing when it gets lost?
The time lag between clicking on the OK in that event, can be
long enough you've forgotten you started kmail once already, and
its cpu load while doing that is quite minimal, and I suspect
half or more of my indice problems are probably caused by two
copies of kmail fighting over the indice files.
Hi Gene,
are you really sure you have two instances of kmail running under
that circumstances?! I have never seen two instances running
simultaneously. When I try to launch a second instance of kmail it
doesn't do so, it just switches to the already running instance…
M2C
Kind regards,
Stefan
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Cheers, Gene Heskett