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Bug 390740 - Evolution pegs cpu when connected to overloaded imap server
Evolution pegs cpu when connected to overloaded imap server
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.30.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal critical
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-12-29 18:36 UTC by Shaya Potter
Modified: 2013-08-23 18:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.29/2.30


Description Shaya Potter 2006-12-29 18:36:31 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Evolution has the tendancy to peg the cpu for extended periods of time when connected to my overloaded imap server, making the system as a whole less responsive and evolution itself stuck on a mailbox 

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 5439 spotter   15   0  178m  79m  16m S 98.2  7.9   9:24.55 evolution          

eventually I guess the connection times out and it tries to reconnect and the load decreases, but this is a continious problem that's making me consider dumping evolution

Steps to reproduce:
1. connect to overload imap server which takes too long to respond to commands
2. wait for a bit.

Actual results:
evolution pegs the cpu

Expected results:
evolution shouldn't peg the cpu

Does this happen every time?
"every" is relatively, it happens many times a day.

Other information:
Comment 1 Daniel Holbach 2007-03-01 11:21:17 UTC 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/76796/comments/4 had a backtrace that matched https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/88850


Debug backtrace:
--- stack trace ---

+ Trace 114877

Thread 1 (process 7032)

  • #0 pthread_mutex_lock
    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
  • #1 pthread_mutex_lock
    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
  • #2 camel_message_info_free
    at camel-folder-summary.c line 2786
  • #3 maildir_summary_sync
    at camel-maildir-summary.c line 808
  • #4 camel_local_summary_sync
    at camel-local-summary.c line 297
  • #5 local_sync
    at camel-local-folder.c line 498
  • #6 camel_folder_sync
    at camel-folder.c line 273
  • #7 emft_copy_folders__copy
    at em-folder-utils.c line 181
  • #8 mail_msg_received
    at mail-mt.c line 582
  • #9 thread_dispatch
    at e-msgport.c line 1005
  • #10 start_thread
    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
  • #11 clone
    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 






Comment 2


Jörn Dreyer





          2007-11-01 09:56:13 UTC
        



I can confirm this behaviour. My imap runs on a vserver which often is under considerable load and Evolution sometimes just grabs 100% of cpu.






Comment 3


Matthew Barnes





          2008-03-11 00:31:49 UTC
        



Bumping version to a stable release.






Comment 4


Akhil Laddha





          2008-07-17 11:53:48 UTC
        



Do you still see in current stable release 2.22.3 ?






Comment 5


André Klapper





          2008-11-16 19:42:44 UTC
        



NEEDINFO as per last comment






Comment 6


Sebastien Bacher





          2009-03-21 10:54:58 UTC
        



the submitter replied on the ubuntu bug "well, been running evolution for about a day now and can't reproduce, but also haven't had any issues with imap server in ages.", that doesn't mean it's fixed though






Comment 7


Sebastien Bacher





          2009-05-12 08:44:41 UTC
        



there is a new comment from somebody still having the issue using GNOME 2.26






Comment 8


Akhil Laddha





          2009-07-30 13:28:57 UTC
        



updating the version as per comment#7

Milan, can we mark this bug as a dupe of either bug 570329 or bug 571206






Comment 9


Milan Crha





          2009-07-30 15:52:59 UTC
        



I guess no. This one is about IMAP driving CPU up. The first is about crash, the second about maildir. I'm not sure how to reproduce this, how to make imap server busy enough.






Comment 10


Charly CAULET





          2010-04-03 13:28:01 UTC
        



I'm using evolution 2.30.0.1, and I can confirm that bug.






Comment 11


Charly CAULET





          2010-04-04 17:54:21 UTC
        



(In reply to comment #10)
> I'm using evolution 2.30.0.1, and I can confirm that bug.
Actually, this issue seems to happen also with overloaded POP3 servers.






Comment 12


Matthew Barnes





          2013-08-23 18:12:26 UTC
        



Closing as OBSOLETE since this is too old and vague to do anything with at this point, and I've not observed the described behavior in Evolution 3.8.