Re: [Evolution] Problems in CVS - Known?

[iain <iain ximian com>]

> On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 18:58, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
>     1) Evolution has become MUCH less stable.  It crashes/freezes quite
>     regularly this last week or two (usually within 30 minutes).
>
> This is related to issue 3, it seems.  Whenever Evolution seems slow or
> acting like it's going to crash, the executive-summary is eating a CPU.

The crash is soup being bad.


>     notice that it is using 99.8% of CPU.  Luckily I have two of them, so I
>     can continue to work, and the other threads can continue (other than the
>     aformentioned freezes).  Notice the CPU time allocated to the process
>     after 17-18 minutes.
>     >From PS:
>     24476 ?        R     16:39 evolution-executive-summary 
>     
> It looks like it is in a hard loop.  Here is a snapshot of what was
> shown when I attached to the pid using strace.  This series of output
> repeats ad infinitum, with only the second number in the braces of
> "gettimeofday" changing.

Upgrade soup.

iain
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