Re: [Evolution] What could be wrong?

[Donald Sowers <desowers centurylink net>]

Thanks Milan,

Sorry, running 3.12.2

And sorry again, I am not a linux tinkerer but just a user. I will have
to really think about how to do what you have asked.  Maybe I can.. but
then again.  

I am not sure if just trying to switch to calendar gave the freeze.
Other times it will freeze for no apparent reason.  I will be sitting
doing something else (not working with E) and I notice that the CPU fan
starts running harder so I check the monitor and the CPUs are at maximum
and E is the only process running but it is running at maximum. Again a
reboot will fix it.

It doesn't do this too often. Every day or so.  

I am going to have to learn the error log system on linux.  

Thanks, Don




On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 14:40 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 08:30 -0400, Donald Sowers wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have been using Evolution (E) for years.
> >
> > Lately I am having it freeze.
> >
> > This morning, I was in email and clicked on calendar and E froze.
> >
> >
> > I quickly brought up my system monitor, my 4 cores on the processor
> > usage increased to near maximum and then the percentage of usage 
> > starts
> > to go down as the memory usage increases.  As memory usage gets near
> > maximum (3.1 GB) the 4 cores usage drop to about 5% which is normal.
> > Swap is running at 50% usage.
> >
> > The computer at this stage is very unresponsive but I try to go in 
> > and
> > kill the E process.  Very long wait for a response but it does kill 
> > the
> > process and all goes back to near normal.
> >
> > If at this point, I start E again the process above is repeated.
> >
> > The only way I have found to stop E totally is reboot and after boot 
> > E
> > acts as it should.
> >
> > ____
> >
> > I am running SolydX.  AMD Phenom II processor.  4gb RAM.  Swap 4gb
> > 64gb SSD drive.   POP3
> >
> >
> > What is wrong?  What can I do?
> >
> > Thanks for any replies.  I have tried many times to go to another 
> > email
> > client but E gives me the best results except for this now freezing
> > problem.
>
>         Hi,
> what is your evolution version, please?
>
> You can run evolution as:
>    $ evolution -c mail
> which opens in a Mail view, which is not freezing your system.
>
> By the way, the freeze/slowdown of the system is due to high swap use. 
>
> Please install debuginfo packages for evolution-data-serer and 
> evolution, then see which processes are using the CPU (it can be 
> evolution, or evolution-calendar-factory in this case) and then get a 
> backtrace of that one with gdb command:
>    $ gdb --batch --ex "t a a bt" -pid=`pidof evolution` &>bt.txt
> Please check the bt.txt for any private information, like passwords, 
> email address, server addresses,... I usually search for "pass" at 
> least (quotes for clarity only).
>
> Then it can be searched whether the issue is known or new.
>
> As you get this when switching to a Calendar view, what Calendars, 
> Memo lists and Task lists do you have configured? On This 
> Computer/Personal is a default one for each of them.
>         Bye,
>         Milan
>
>
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