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Bug 538312

Summary: mail-client/claws-mail performance degredation when entering IMAP with >20k messages
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Jan Matějka (RETIRED) <yac>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Jan Matějka (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-01-31 06:01:02 UTC
mail-client/claws performance degredation when entering IMAP with >20k messages

I have ruled out local filesystem issues and claws on openSUSE Factory with the same account doesn't have this problem.

beefcake yac # emerge --info claws-mail
^AqPortage 2.2.14 (python 3.3.5-final-0, hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.16.5-gentoo x86_64)
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                         System Settings
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System uname: Linux-3.16.5-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-8320_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    16418320 total,  14929688 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:45:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p53
dev-lang/perl:            5.18.2-r2
dev-lang/python:          2.7.9-r1, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.2-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r1, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r3
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2-r1
sys-devel/make:           4.0-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.16 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.19-r1
Repositories: gentoo yac
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=bdver2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=bdver2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync webrsync-gpg xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/pub/gentoo/ rsync://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/ http://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j10"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/overlays/yacs-gentoo-overlay"
SYNC=""
USE="acl amd64 bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri hardened iconv ipv6 justify mmx modules multilib ncurses nptl offensive openmp pam pcre readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode urandom vim-syntax xattr xft xtpax zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="canon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en cs" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

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                        Package Settings
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mail-client/claws-mail-3.11.1 was built with the following:
USE="gnutls imap ipv6 libcanberra libindicate libnotify notification pgp session smime -archive -bogofilter -calendar -clamav -dbus -debug -doc -gdata (-gtk3) -ldap -networkmanager -nntp -pda -pdf -perl -python -rss -spam-report -spamassassin -spell -startup-notification -valgrind -webkit -xface" ABI_X86="64" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jan Matějka (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-01-31 06:09:43 UTC
The problem with >20k messages is that they seem to start "loading", as indicated by the progress bar at the bottom, very slowly where it takes one second to process 10 messages. Until 20k it processes about a thousand per second.

However, when it gets over 21k it seems to return to normal. Now I have waited to see all the progress and observed it takes another second to get to 22k, then to 23k and then it jumps to 29k where it finishes.
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-03-05 02:11:45 UTC
I think such a thing will need to be reported upstream if still relevant.
Comment 3 Bernard Cafarelli gentoo-dev 2022-07-10 13:20:02 UTC
Agreed, if that still happens with current versions of claws-mail and dependencies, this does not look like a Gentoo-specific issue (my largest IMAP folders are "only" 10k messages though)