https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338571
--- Comment #50 from Philip Allen <plega-...@armitstead.com> --- (In reply to Tore Anderson from comment #49) > (In reply to Martin Steigerwald from comment #47) > > Tore, Gunther or someone else who commented here: Could you please check > > whether you still have those performance issues you reported there with > > KDEPIM/Akonadi 20.04? > > I can try. I obviously haven't been using KMail in the last few years, but > now I installed a Fedora 32 KDE VM to perform, upgraded it to Rawhide to get > KDEPIM/Akonadi 20.04, rebooted it and deleted all files (including hidden) > in my home directory from a console login (just to make sure what I am about > to report was not a holdover from the previous Akonadi version in Fedora 32) > and logged back in. > > The result - just from logging in - is that ~/.local/share/akonadi/db_data > contains 158 MiB of stuff. > > To be clear: I have *not* started KMail, *not* edited any Akonadi settings, > or anything like that. The *only* thing I have done is to log in from a > completely empty user account, start Konsole, run 'du' to check disk usage. > > Yet Akonadi has managed to store 158 MiB of what has to be completely > pointless stuff. That is beyond comprehension, and certainly does not give > me any hope that this bug is anywhere close to being fixed, quite the > opposite. Akonadi's disk and resource usage seems to still be beyond insane. > > That said, I will test towards an IMAP account later and update this bug > with my findings. > > > If so, it might be good to report it in a new bug since – with my > > contribution unfortunately, this bug report has so many comments that it may > > be difficult to make sense out of it for a developer. > > What's the point? The reason why this bug has many comments is that it has > languished here or almost six years with no developer taking any interest in > actually fixing it. Why assume a new bug report will be treated any > differently > > KMail is unusable with IMAP accounts with more than a few thousand messages, > and it's been like this for years. I can only surmise that this is a use > case the developers care about (which is fair enough, don't get me wrong, I > get what I pay for here). > > Tore I shouldn't laugh. I've been using mutt for at least five years now, and I can't imagine ever going back to a GUI for my mail client. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
