Re: [Evolution] evolution hangs frequently when on adsl link

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Ok, probably some things a bit more helpful ...

Is this SSL?  In which case it might be libnss doing nasty/slow timeout
things.

The cancel/stop button *should* work instantly, but it may not.

The packet loss may be causing the tcp connection to fail (which, well,
it shouldn't), and the code doesn't handle dropped connections very
well.

If you run evolution in gdb, you can ctrl-c it when its 'hung', and find
out exactly where it's getting stuck.  There may already be  abug report
in bugzilla.ximian.com about it.



On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 16:50 +1300, Russell Fulton wrote:

> Hi All,
>       I am using evolution 1.4 on a Mandrake 9.2 system.  Some of the time I
> am connected via ethernet but at other times via a 802.11b net to a
> 128Kbps adsl link (at home).
>
> When on the wlan/adsl connection evolution frequently hangs with
> "pinging IMAP server ....." in the status line.  This seems to take at
> least 10 minutes to time out.
>
> Running standard pings over the link I get about a 3% Packet loss -- I
> will be taking this up with the supplier.
>
> Quite why evolution thinks it is necessary to ping the server and why it
> hangs up with such a long timeout is beyond my comprehension.
>
> Does anyone else have this trouble? Is there a way to shorten the
> timeout on (or preferably disable) the pings.
>
> Some times other operations (particularly those that have sub ops like expunge) fail.
>
> I have seen this problem very occasionally while connected via ethernet and
> somewhat more frequently while on a dialup connection -- but nothing
> like as frequently as with the dsl link. 
>
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