Re: kmail again : problems growing --- Please help !!!

["Anthony E . Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:07:26 hans schneidhofer wrote:
> the problems with kmail are growing very fast . After
> looking for a 2 or 3 mails suddenly kmail exits.
> 
> Anybody there, who knows, what's going on here ?
> 
> Is it possible, that there is a bug in kmail ? Or is it
> possible, that I have too much saved mails ? Just in time I
> have of about 1700 saved mails.
> 
> After looking all incoming mails in inbox with vi AND then
> remove all mails kmail is working, but how long ?
> 
> The memory cannot be (hoping so) the reason, because I have
> 256 MB's, And the HD's are also impossible : 120 Gig's and
> the HD, which holds the mail-directory has enough space
> there - 2.1 Gig's free.

It may be a memory management problem. Some mail clients create an index on messages in the open mailbox and keep this index in memory. If this 'index object' gets too large, the application logic may not be able to handle it properly.

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