[Evolution] Runaway Evolution

["Patrick Haggood" <codezilla email com>]

Having just read "Getting Things Done" I've decided, after using 
Evolution for the last five years only as my email client, to 
transform it into the lynchpin of my personal productivity toolbox.  
However, after re-organizing all my existing folders from identified 
'buckets' to more action-able names per the book, and condensing many 
of the filters I used to have (i.e. took separate online 
publication/mailing list filters and condensed them into a single 
filter that puts these emails into a "Weekly" folder) now everytime I 
click any action in any folder (i.e. 'clear' a filter, send/receive, 
just start the program, etc) the Evolution goes into a frenzy of 
activity and the entire machine bogs.  The program has never done 
this before.

I have about 1.1G of email going back to 2000.  I'm using Suse 9.3 
with current yast2 patches, 512M RAM, 80GBHD with ~40GB free, /home 
is ext3.

Other data follows:

=======VER
pbh linux:~> rpm -qa | grep evol
evolution-sharp-0.7-3
evolution-2.2.1-7.4
evolution-devel-2.2.1-7.4
multisync-evolution-0.82+cvs-4
evolution-data-server-1.2.1-7.3
evolution-webcal-2.2.0-4
pbh linux:~>

===========TOP

top - 16:12:07 up  6:42,  4 users,  load average: 2.49, 2.04, 2.33
Tasks:  84 total,   2 running,  82 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.3% us,  4.3% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 91.1% wa,  1.3% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    450348k total,   445028k used,     5320k free,     2740k buffers
Swap:  1052216k total,   310856k used,   741360k free,    23032k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  1039 pbh       16   0  458m 308m 4920 R  2.3 70.2   0:27.82 evolution
  6277 root      15   0 98840 7452 1436 S  1.3  1.7   8:03.26 X
32073 pbh       15   0 31484 5276 3668 S  1.3  1.2   0:06.79 konsole
   148 root      15   0     0    0    0 D  1.0  0.0   0:15.90 kswapd0
   106 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:05.29 kblockd/0
32005 pbh       16   0 74112  13m 5824 S  0.3  3.1   0:58.69 firefox-bin
   317 pbh       16   0  2056  828  660 S  0.3  0.2   0:06.44 top
  1086 pbh       16   0  2056  964  748 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.05 top


===========PS
pbh linux:~> ps -ef  | grep evolution
pbh      25699     1  0 13:33 ?        00:00:00 
/opt/gnome/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2/evolution-data-server-1.2 
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_DataServer_InterfaceCheck 
--oaf-ior-fd=21
pbh      25715     1  0 13:33 ?        00:00:02 
/opt/gnome/lib/evolution/2.2/evolution-alarm-notify 
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_AlarmNotify_Factory:2.2 
--oaf-ior-fd=23
pbh      32484  6942  5 15:15 ?        00:02:44 evolution -c mail
pbh        476     1  0 15:42 ?        00:00:02 evolution 
mailto:users lists ximian com
pbh        934   330  0 16:07 pts/3    00:00:00 grep evolution