[Kolab-devel] PC performance related problems with Kontact?

[ITSEF Admin]

Hi all,

I'm wondering about something: Could it be possible that the performance of 
the PC has some influence on Kontact behaving badly or not? I've had a user 
come to me twice today, running into something that resembles issue1432 and 
something I started a thread on kolab-user 
(http://kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-users/2006-October/005442.html) about. 
Basically, he would create a new task, sync it, edit is some time later, sync 
again and end up with a conflict dialog. I was sitting next to him once when 
this happened and had a look at the task in question. I found that there were 
two copies of the task in the Tasks folder on the server and one in the local 
DIMAP cache. The one in the DIMAP cache had a different "X-Uid" in the header 
- for the rest, the three messages were identical. The same user also 
reported several cases where tasks would vanish from sight (similar to 
issue1498) or vanish completely (i.e. also from the server/DIMAP cache).
Restarting Kontact and rebuilding the cache of the Tasks folder helps, but 
only for a while, then the problem starts again.

On my own machine, I have never had any problems with tasks - only with 
appointments (hence issue1498), even though I use both quite often. The only 
difference between the two PCs is horsepower - his PC is a PIII/866 whereas 
mine is P4/3.2GHz. The OS installation (SuSE 10.0) is identical (we use 
auto-install). 
I'm aware of issue1390 (Sync Performance bad, blocking machine while parsing 
headers), which seems to be the only "horsepower-relaetd" problem I could 
find. Right now, I'm out of ideas...

Cheerio,

Thomas