GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 562979
hang trying to load new usenet group
Last modified: 2009-08-19 05:25:55 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. configure a news server (i.e. gmane) 2. add a new group (subscribe to folder) 3. wait Stack trace:
+ Trace 210412
Thread 1 (Thread 0xb6445940 (LWP 6497))
Other information: UI seems to be hung, but since I've done a "cont" in gdb the following was emitted: (evolution:6497): camel-WARNING **: Could not open converter for 'X-UNKNOWN' to 'UTF-8' charset so evolution is still doing something, just not updating the UI.
And in fact, it is consuming 90% CPU and I still see NNTP traffic flowing. So I will wait until I see that stop before I decide to kill evolution and restart it. BTW: is there a way to limit how many (i.e. recent) messages evolution will fetch summaries for when adding a new newsgroup? Servers like gmane will have groups with many (many, many) messages in them and likely I don't want them all. I just want a few (or none) of the recent messages but just want to fetch/see new messages. Ahhh. Finally, the NNTP traffic has stopped but evolutions UI is still unresponsive and not updating.
Could you try with 2.24.4 or later please? It should be better there. With respect of limits: no, I'm not aware of any such option.
Most of the performance issues in NNTP was fixed part of the other bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 564388 ***