Re: [Evolution] Syncing causes system to thrash

[Lonnie Borntreger <email borntreger com>]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:53 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> i presume its using scads of memory?
>
> which process is sucking up all the memory?

I have to assume that it is e-d-s, since killing it restores the system
to a sane state.

Lonnie

> 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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