Re: [Evolution] Evolution is using total CPU and Ram

[wade wadesmart com]

10132006 1557 GMT-6

Ok. I opened the Sent file. There were over 4 million lines in there. I deleted 600K of them. That was the 
last email. Do I also do this for the inbox as well as the message was bounced  back to me from Yahoo?

wade

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution is using total CPU and Ram
> From: Alexandru Nedelcu <bonefry gmail com>
> Date: Fri, October 13, 2006 12:19 pm
> To: wade wadesmart com
>
> A quick solution would be for you to manually modify the file that
> Evolution uses to store emails on disk.
>
> If you're using the local folders to store the email, the Sent file
> would be located at:
> ~/.evolution/mail/local/Sent
>
> The format of this file is very comprehensible ... just search for the
> title of the email, and you delete every line from there to the next
> title.
>
> Open it in a text editor capable of handling large files, but do make a
> backup of it first, to have what to recover in case you screw up.
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:56 -0700, wade wadesmart com wrote:
> > 10132006 1152 GMT-6
> >
> > Last night I sent an email to a client with a yahoo address. The email was too large and I received a 
> > failure message. When I tried to delete it, my CPU and Memory shot straight up. I let it sit for a few 
> > hours but it didnt recover. This morning I had to hard boot to get it to stop. When I opened Evolution 
> > again, same thing happened. 
> >
> > I got this from my system monitor:
> > Process Name   Status          Memory   Virtual Memory   %CPU     CPU Time
> > Evolution     Uninterruptiable 1.6GiB    1.6Gib           0 CPU   3:40:96
> >
> > In /.evolution/mail/local/Inbox  Inbox plain text file is 1.2GB in size.
> >
> > What can I do to recover? 
> >
> > Wade
> >
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