On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 08:30 -0400, Donald Sowers wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have been using Evolution (E) for years.
>
> Lately I am having it freeze.
>
> This morning, I was in email and clicked on calendar and E froze.
>
>
> I quickly brought up my system monitor, my 4 cores on the processor
> usage increased to near maximum and then the percentage of usage
> starts
> to go down as the memory usage increases. As memory usage gets near
> maximum (3.1 GB) the 4 cores usage drop to about 5% which is normal.
> Swap is running at 50% usage.
>
> The computer at this stage is very unresponsive but I try to go in
> and
> kill the E process. Very long wait for a response but it does kill
> the
> process and all goes back to near normal.
>
> If at this point, I start E again the process above is repeated.
>
> The only way I have found to stop E totally is reboot and after boot
> E
> acts as it should.
>
> ____
>
> I am running SolydX. AMD Phenom II processor. 4gb RAM. Swap 4gb
> 64gb SSD drive. POP3
>
>
> What is wrong? What can I do?
>
> Thanks for any replies. I have tried many times to go to another
> email
> client but E gives me the best results except for this now freezing
> problem.
>
Hi,
what is your evolution version, please?
You can run evolution as:
$ evolution -c mail
which opens in a Mail view, which is not freezing your system.
By the way, the freeze/slowdown of the system is due to high swap use.
Please install debuginfo packages for evolution-data-serer and
evolution, then see which processes are using the CPU (it can be
evolution, or evolution-calendar-factory in this case) and then get a
backtrace of that one with gdb command:
$ gdb --batch --ex "t a a bt" -pid=`pidof evolution` &>bt.txt
Please check the bt.txt for any private information, like passwords,
email address, server addresses,... I usually search for "pass" at
least (quotes for clarity only).
Then it can be searched whether the issue is known or new.
As you get this when switching to a Calendar view, what Calendars,
Memo lists and Task lists do you have configured? On This
Computer/Personal is a default one for each of them.
Bye,
Milan
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