Why is kmail using so much cpu power

[gene heskett]

On Friday, October 29, 2010 10:05:26 am user1 did opine:

> I am using 10.10.
> 
> I can se, that from time to time my computer is working very hard.
> 
> When I run top I can se that it is kmail who is using 100-108 % cpu
> power.
> 
> How can I avoid that?

If you find out how, please post the solution.

What it is I believe, is kmail rebuilding its indices, and it seems to be 
made worse and more frequent when the mail is incoming in a fairly busy 
stream.  Here, kmail does not do the mail sucking, I use fetchmail for 
that, and procmail for the Spamassassin handling, so all kmail needs to do 
is pull it from /var/spool/mail/user and sort to the folders.  If it had to 
do all of fetchmail/procmail/spamassassin stuff, it would be frozen and 
unusable for extended periods of time when it was doing the mail pulling.

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