Re: [Evolution] Syncing causes system to thrash

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

i presume its using scads of memory?

which process is sucking up all the memory?

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 23:18 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> Specs...  Yesterday's anonCVS of gal, libsoup, gtkhtml, e-d-s, and
> evolution
> Kernel 2.6.7 SMP
> glibc 2.3.3
> gcc 3.4.1
>
> When I hit the hotsync for my Palm, it seems to start out OK, but then
> it reports that the communication stops, and my system starts to thrash.
> The kswapd0 process starts taking a lot of CPU, which causes pretty much
> everything to sloooooooooooow down.  I have to switch to a console
> (quickly, before X pretty much halts) and kill e-d-s (which is difficult
> when ps takes a minute to return a result, and typing occurs at 1
> character every 5-10 seconds), to recover the system.
>
> Any ideas?  I just recently upgraded to 2.6.7 from 2.6.3 - is it kernel
> related?  Or is something dreadfully wrong in e-d-s?
>
> Lonnie Borntreger
>
>
>
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