Public bug reported: Evolution-alarm-notify uses 100% CPU on disk-full by processing a very tight polling loop:
$ strace -p `pidof evolution-alarm-notify` gettimeofday({1157034485, 145322}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=17, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=30, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=48, events=POLLIN}, {fd=32, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=36, events=POLLIN}], 6, 813449) = 1 read(17, "A", 1) = 1 gettimeofday({1157034485, 145772}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- evolution-alarm-notify uses 100% CPU on disk-full https://launchpad.net/bugs/58353 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs