2007/7/30, Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Freitag, den 27.07.2007, 10:01 -0700 schrieb Ross Boylan: > > > This problem significant affects usability and the performance of my > > entire system. It is new since the 2.10 upgrade. > > > > When I'm using evolution, as often as every few minutes, it locks up > > for awhile (10 seconds?) and becomes unresponsive. It consumes all > > available CPU. I haven't noticed much of a pattern; I think it has > > happend while scrolling the message list (which is long), while > > scrolling a message in a compose window, and while typing a reply. > > > > I am running under KDE. My mailboxes are IMAP; some are quite large. > > My INBOX is 20k messages. > > I also observe this behaviour, mostly when walking through a very large > IMAP folder, reading the mails. Then sometimes evolution becomes > unresponsive for a few seconds. I cannot observe this every time. > > I guess, I know what's maybe causing this: I prefer to get the mails > every 5 minutes. As longer as evolution runs, it needs more and more > time to fetch the mails - not because the count of mails it has to fetch > increases. It simply gets more and more unresponsive when fetching the > mails. Say in the first hour, it needs 1 second, when I press the button > to fetch the mails. After running maybe 4 hours it becomes unresponsive > for at least 10 seconds when I press the button to fetch the mails. > > And maybe this process, that fetches the mails every 5 minutes, is > causing the unresponsive times during walking through my folders too. I > hope, you understand, what I want to say :) The issue is really a bit > obscure. > > @Ross: Maybe you observe the same? The next time the issue occurs for > you, could you check, if the system also gets unresponsive, when you > press the button to fetch the mails? > > Regards, Daniel
Can you also observe the memory usage in the cases where it becomes slow and compare it to normal memory usage? Cheers, Øystein
