Package: mail-notification Version: 2.0.dfsg.1-3 Severity: normal Hi,
Just to inform that mail-notification takes a lot of cpu when it cannot reach the host on which the mailboxes are. Results are then like: ps aux | grep -i mail-notification f 4749 94.3 0.8 44416 8664 pts/2 Sl+ 10:17 3:01 mail-notification How to reproduce: - my mailboxes are on distant hosts. I need internet connection to reach them. my internet connection go through eth0. - $ ifdown eth0 - $ mail-notification - it will start eating all cpu. Approx 50% are used by the system Top indicates: Cpu(s): 53.3% us, 42.3% sy, 4.3% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si - this situation last until it can reach the mail-boxes - $ ifup eth0 - internet available but mail-notification keep eating all cpu. I guess the duration is roughly the delay between mail-check. - once mail-notification check the mailboxes (window indicating new mails appear), cpu consumption returns to normal. So I guess there is some loop inside mail-notification that just keep trying reaching the host until it succeeds. There should be a delay inside this loop. What is strange is that once internet comes up again, mail-notification still eat up all cpu until it really check for emails. Looks like it keep trying reaching the host, but just to contact him due to previous request, but it actually check for emails only after the 'delay between mail-check' is reached. So there must be 2 loops. That's just my guess. Note that this can be linked to bug #334767 'mail-notification: CPU usage shoots up when checking mail box over ssh'. However I did not use ssh. Hoping you can see a solution. Should you need more info, tell me how to obtain them and I will provide them to you. Note: in case it is important, mail-notification checks 2 mailboxes with IMAP and 1 with POP3. Kindly, Franck R. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages mail-notification depends on: ii gconf2 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-icon-theme 2.14.2-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libavahi-client3 0.6.9-8+b1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.9-8+b1 Avahi common library ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.9-8+b1 Avahi glib integration library ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.0.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libeel2-2 2.12.2-4 Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgail-common 1.8.11-2 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgail17 1.8.11-2 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgamin0 [libfam0] 0.1.7-3 Client library for the gamin file ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgmime2.1 2.1.19-1 MIME library, unstable version ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.14.1.1-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.9-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome-menu2 2.14.0-1 an implementation of the freedeskt ii libgnome2-0 2.14.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.1-1 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-14+b1 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error0 1.2-1 library for common error values an ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.17-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-12 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsasl2 2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2 Authentication abstraction library ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library ii libstartup-notification 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libtasn1-2 1:0.2.17-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.2-3 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime mail-notification recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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