Re: [Evolution] UI freezing

[Brian L Scipioni <brian scipioni janusresearch com>]

This happened to me again this a.m.  After freezing a few times finally
I had a deep freeze and the window never refreshed.  I had to kill
processes. 

[brian radium ~]$ uname -a
Linux radium.gaugetheory.org 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 #1 SMP Tue Jun 19
19:27:14 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux



On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 13:06 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
>
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Brian L Scipioni <brian scipioni janusresearch com>