Re: [Evolution] UI freezing

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:48 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> 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.

I'm using the 2.6.22 kernel. Also, I haven't seen this except in Evo.
The UI freezes completely e.g. if I bury the window and raise it again
it won't even refresh, but I can switch to a different app or even a
different desktop and everything else works. Eventually Evo wakes up
again and I can continue until the next freeze.

poc