Re: [Evolution] evolution causes disk to spin constantly

[Harish Krishnaswamy <kharish novell com>]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 12:01 -0700, John Stile wrote:
> I solved my own problem.
> Cause: 
>   I had a big folder (>100,000 messages) on an Exchange server,
>   which constantly got more mail from and active mailing list,
>   and filter run re-counted the folder, which took too long.
>   New mail would arrive before the re-count could complete, 
>   and the process would repeat. 
> Fix:
>   Now filter moves mail to a Unix IMAP server, and I don't see the
> problem (for now). 
>   
> 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.

Thanks John. This problem/fix information should be on our wiki too.