Re: balsa hung

[Mario Mikocevic <mario mikocevic t-com hr>]

Hi,

On 10/01/2008 10:11:48 AM, Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 09/30/2008 03:59:36 PM, Mario Mikocevic wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > deleting huge amount of e-mails in mailbox can seemingly hang balsa.
> > I wrote seemingly because I gave up on waiting after 4 hours.
> >
> > howto ->
> >
> > mbox format of e-mails
> > consisting of a LOT of simple e-mails
> >   (ie daily report of something with subject 'A type' or subject 'B type')
> > open that mailbox
> > sort by subject
> > select only subject 'A type'
> > click 'Trash/Delete'
> > choose menu 'Mailbox' then 'Expunge Deleted Messages'
> > go on some loooong vacation .. :)
>
> Did it use any CPU at that time, or it looked more like a deadlock (no  
> response but no CPU usage either)?

CPU usage 100% ..

> I remember the expunging could sometimes be really slow (the time per  
> message is not constant but rather depends on the number of messages in the  
> mailbox) but 4 hours is definitely excessive....

Yep, but every time I did ctrl-z in gdb it was the very same spot in 'where'  
.. btw mutt(1) deleted same amount (in my case 8300 from 17000)
in about a minute ..


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