I am trying to run Kontact on an HP Netbook running Ubuntu 10.5. KAddressBook and KOrganizer running by themselves work great. KEmail and Kontact both run fine the first time I start them after an install, but then quickly bog down and get slower each time I run them. They quickly become unusable.

I am using the Gnome desktop, but the same behavior is evident when I log into KDE on the same system.

I have uninstalled and re-installed several times using the package manager and get the same results.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

-- Donald

Not only a suggestion, but I'd like you to help me test a theory. If you run kmail as a stand-alone it seems absolutely fine. I've run it that way for 8 hours and seen no problem. However, I use akregator for keeping in touch with the forums, and whenever I start that my cpu usage rockets and everything slows down.

What would be extremely helpful would be if you would run the kontact applications as standalone, opening and closing kaddressbook or whatever when it's not in use, and try to monitor what happens in your system. I keep System Activity monitor (started from the icon in krunner) as a smallish panel when I'm troubleshooting this sort of thing. I'm seeing X activity rocketing when I can see no obvious reason for it.

I'm trying to get objective information so that we can feed it back to the developers. I hope you can monitor things for a day or two. It would be a tremendous help.

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond.

I did resolve this issue. What happened is that, in switching from Thunderbird, I imported all my old Thunderbird E-mail into KOrganizer folders. Apparently, these folders were being accessed somehow, which progressively slowed the system. By removing the folders and starting from scratch, I've had a great experience with KMail for some time now with no sign of declining performance.

It's an excellent program.

-- Donald