I must confess my self disappointed.

I decided to tryout the new KMail system today and it was not at all the experience I would expect. To avoid problems I removed my old .kde-dirs to start out fresh. My background i 7 years with KDE and Linux, and 20 as a software developer mainly in the Solaris world.
I run Arch linux with as little stuff as ever possible. I did an update today into KDE 4.8.3

Adding my gmail was easy, making it show up on the main window was hard and required a restart on kmail.
I got a ton of errors that the path to the local mail account was wrong. After I deleted it it was recreated in a better state.
During the process my computer started to beep in a way I have never experienced before.

It was the over heat beep. Running KDE with KMail made my computer start warning for overheat. The mysqld consumed about 75% CPU and Akonadi have one process on 45% and one more I forgot to note. This means that the backend to store my darn mails will consume more than one of the CPUs and push both my core temperatures to 68 degrees Celsius. When idle and no KMail started. The alarm is set to 70 degrees Celsius.

This is a problem I really must address. What is the point of adding a backed so complex it is the yet only software I have ever started that makes my temperature alarm go off? This is what I could expect of Microsoft but not by KDE.

I can accept that KDE is a heavy weight windows manager in general, a feature rich window manager but from my point of view Akonadi back-end is ridiculous in its current state.

The important question is if this is a mistake or follows the planns for Akonadi and KDE. WIll I need to purchase a new computer every second year to run the KDE platform, then I guess I and many others needs to reconsider to other platforms.

My computer is a AMD Atholon X64 3.3 GHz Black Box Edition, placed in a Antec Sonata chassis. I have just moved from Gentoo into Arch linux and while a huge gentoo update made the system slow I was allways able to run KDE and Firefox to keep my self busy with simple tasks while pushing the CPU load to the maximum during long time compilations. Without any temperature alarms.

Now when I killed the Akonadi processes and have had the system idle (firefox and KDE) for a while I am back on 45-50 degrees C and a silent system. Time to make some cleaning and looking for other mail solutions.

Are you using hotmail?

Nope.

I am using gmail. I have a lot of emails though.
I think the stress started when I deleted the local mail account and it was automatically recreated.

Would I benefit of working with sqlite instead? I am not very fond i MySql and prefere Sqlite instead.

Sorry. It was just a bad joke/pun.

Quite fun when I finally realized it was a joke ...