[Evolution] evolution taking 5+ minutes to shut down

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper <vR movingparts net>]

As a prelude, I am running evo 1.3.92 on debian sid, on a P4 1.8G laptop
with 1G of RAM.  I keep all of my mail in Maildir format in ~/Maildir,
which takes up 86M, and evolution of course has its own directory in
~/evolution, which takes up 18M.  All of my filesystems are
XFS--recently upgraded to kernel-space 1.2.  All your base are... no,
nevermind.

I typically suspend my laptop at the end of the work day and resume it
at home, then suspend and repeat the next day, etc.  Thus, I typically
leave eveolution running for days and days at a time.  

As of late, I've been noticing that evolution takes a REALLY long time
to shut down, and while it does so, X locks up until it is done.  I
notice that my hard drive is spinning constantly and at gkrellm's last
update, it shows my hda traffic at 2.6M/s+.  

I just rebooted yesterday for a new kernel and restarted evolution, then
suspended at end of day,  resumed last night, and closed evolution this
morning (note: evolution was running for less than 24 hours this time). 
It took 7 minutes between when evolution popped up it's "evolution is
closing" dialog window and when I finally was allowed to use my computer
again.

My questions: 

- what in blazes is evolution doing between when it pops up its
"evolution is closing" window and when it's done?

- what in my described-above system could be contributing to this 7
minutes that I get to sit quietly and wait for the "now closing" window
to go away?

- is anyone else seeing this???

- even though I've started evo with "nice evolution", my system locks
completely and I'm unable to even switch to a VC.  Is there any way I
can debug this thing??

TIA.


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