If your kmail uses insane amounts of memory - here's a solution

Okay, this works for me, not sure if it will work for everybody.
Recently, after KDE 4.4.0 upgrade I think, I noticed kmail taking up like 500mb of residential memory, sometimes even 1g of it. This is insane, I thought.
After a short research I found the problem. For some reason it tried to load up all my mail into memory. Since I got over 0.5gig of mail, that's how much it took. After a thorough cleaning, I only left like 30mb of mail, and voila - kmail (after restarting it) takes only ~40mb of memory!
I'm just posting it for people with similar problems.
Oh, by the way - it was no memory leak, the process took up 500mb just after starting. It only grew worse with few hours of usage (up to about 1gig).
Last edited by kosmiciatakuja (2010-02-16 15:20:48)

Been here, done that ...
I had this very same duplication problem really bad a few months ago. I deleted everything as you suggested. The problem started back up literally the next time I synch'd. I did the deletion thing again but this time deleted my Entourage Sync Preferences and iSync preferences and that seemed to resolve the problem for a short period (about a month). Did it all again then I installed MobileMe a few weeks later and the problem came back. Got rid of it once again and sure enough, a month later (thought it was gone), it's back.
I just went through and deleted the duplicate entries again but not the preferences. I'm going to do some test entries to see if it matters where you enter in a calendar entry, if it's started on the iPhone, Entourage, or Calendar. I doubt Calendar because I never put them into Calendar.
Any body else having this problem who could offer some insight? It would be appreciated.

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