The problem I reported earlier about deadlocking etc., had nothing to do with freezing - but that also is a new phenomenon that has only been happening to me recently. I'll be typing away in a new message and all of a sudden no more characters and Everything freezes. Then after a long time (15 seconds or so) all my buffered characters spit out. While in a freeze, the window will move but not repaint. If I drag it around a lot while it is frozen (trying to wake it up I suppose :-)), it will crash.
I've only seen this on my primary home computer, a dual AMD Opteron 252, but never on my work computer, a Intel core2duo E6600. They have identical software: FC6 with the 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 kernel and Evo 2.8.3 and the same other packages loaded. The only software difference is at work I exclusively use an IMAP client, while at home I primarily use a POP3 client. That makes sense, because I have a sneaking suspicion these locks and freezes are associated with I/O. -- Brian L Scipioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 13:06 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:48 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:18 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure this didn't used to happen, but recently I've been > > > noticing the UI freezing for a few seconds quite regularly. It happens > > > while I'm composing a message, and also if I switch IMAP folders, often > > > when the "Storing ..." string appears on the lower edge status line. > > > > > > At first I thought it could be because my Drafts folder is remote, or > > > because I use a slow LDAP server, but turning off both these things made > > > no difference. > > > > > > Is there a problem with multi-threading or did I just not ntoice this > > > before? I'm currently on 2.10.3 under Fedora 7 with KDE 3.5.7. > > > > > > > This could be a kernel issue. There have been reports of I/O freezes > > under 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 kernels. Some of these are reported as fixed in > > 2.6.22 kernels. I've seen this too, but only when something else on the > > box is using a lot of I/O. > > I'm using the 2.6.22 kernel. Also, I haven't seen this except in Evo. > The UI freezes completely e.g. if I bury the window and raise it again > it won't even refresh, but I can switch to a different app or even a > different desktop and everything else works. Eventually Evo wakes up > again and I can continue until the next freeze. > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- Brian L Scipioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
