Re: [Evolution] evolution causes disk to spin constantly

[Harish Krishnaswamy <kharish novell com>]

Hi John,

 From your traces and looking up the code - I find that this stems from
instrumentation bits added by the developer to measure the performance
of message list building in the mailer.

This code *should* be ifdef'd, undefined by default and enabled only on
debug builds.

Harish



On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:56 -0700, John Stile wrote:
> At some point (could be 1 to 10 minutes) after starting evolution, the
> hard disk starts spinning constantly, nic and hub blink constantly, and
> vmstat shows lots of data sent to block device (bo column).  The program
> will continue until I get a message that it can't contact the server, or
> I kill it, but it will stay this way for hours.
>
> Can someone tell me what might be happening?
>
> I ran Evolution with strace, and when it starts the behavior described
> above, these are the lines that rush buy over and over. 
>
>
> gettimeofday({1147142011, 778175}, NULL) = 0
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=10, 
> events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN}], 7, 0) = 0
> write(3, "\n\4\2\0\271\0 \0025\30\4\0\243\340!\2\315\322!\2\1\2\26"..., 1800) = 1800
> ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> gettimeofday({1147142011, 782346}, NULL) = 0
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=10, 
> events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN, 
> revents=POLLIN}], 7, 284448) = 1
> gettimeofday({1147142012, 101912}, NULL) = 0
> read(20, "\0", 1)                       = 1
> ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> gettimeofday({1147142012, 102345}, NULL) = 0
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=10, 
> events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN}], 7, 0) = 0
> write(3, "\n\4\2\0\271\0 \0025\30\4\0\250\340!\2\315\322!\2\1\2\26"..., 1800) = 1800
> ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> gettimeofday({1147142012, 105298}, NULL) = 0
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=10, 
> events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN, 
> revents=POLLIN}], 7, 284124) = 1
> gettimeofday({1147142012, 306995}, NULL) = 0
> read(20, "\0", 1)                       = 1
> ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> gettimeofday({1147142012, 307425}, NULL) = 0
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=10, 
> events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN}], 7, 0) = 0
> write(3, "\n\4\2\0\271\0 \0025\30\4\0\255\340!\2\315\322!\2\1\2\26"..., 1800) = 1800
> ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> gettimeofday({1147142012, 309538}, NULL) = 0
>
>
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