Re: [Evolution] UI freezing

[Daniel Gryniewicz <dang gentoo org>]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:18 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this didn't used to happen, but recently I've been
> noticing the UI freezing for a few seconds quite regularly. It happens
> while I'm composing a message, and also if I switch IMAP folders, often
> when the "Storing ..." string appears on the lower edge status line.
>
> At first I thought it could be because my Drafts folder is remote, or
> because I use a slow LDAP server, but turning off both these things made
> no difference.
>
> Is there a problem with multi-threading or did I just not ntoice this
> before? I'm currently on 2.10.3 under Fedora 7 with KDE 3.5.7.

This could be a kernel issue.  There have been reports of I/O freezes
under 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 kernels.  Some of these are reported as fixed in
2.6.22 kernels.  I've seen this too, but only when something else on the
box is using a lot of I/O.

Daniel