I beg to differ - this is a bug (albeit a bit of a touchy-feely bug with
little hard data). Probably kernel related more than anything (lots of
small files being opened/closed, causing excessive interrupt load/busy
waiting). Possibly even the SATA disk/drivers doing bad things (haven't
looked at the guts of that part of the kernel).

Further information:

If the evolution process is killed off halfway through the
synchronisation, the nfs server recovers and allows connections again.
This suggests resource starvation. What's particularly bad in this case
is a userspace application is starving the nfs kernel server. Not your
typical situation, but somewhat scary if multi-user systems are
considered.

Of course if it's related to bad hardware then there's nothing anyone
can really do. However, since I have no other indications that the
problem is hardware related (no kernel log messages screaming out at me,
no funny sounds from the HD) I think this is just an issue with
balancing the system. Reducing the load evolution puts on the system
would be the workaround/fix.

I'll leave this as invalid, but if I find any other cases where
evolution is resource starving my machine, I'll reopen.

I'll also test this out on the next release when it comes out.

Regards, Richard

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Evolution prevents nfs server from working when synchronising folders
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