Another observation: Adding 'acl,user_xattr' to the mount options of my home partition fixed most of the issues. Mail syncing is still not lightning fast, but it's become usable now. And most importantly: It doesn't lock up my file system/hard disk any more.
So to me this looks mostly like a bug in the reiserfs code in the kernel (even though I also see quite some potential to optimise kmail here). -- Heavy disk I/O usage when starting KMail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135147 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contact for kdepim in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs