Evolution consuming 50% cpu on FC 16

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 07:39 +0800, hostmaster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My Inbox has about 20+ sub-folders. If I click on the Inbox folder the cpu consumption would spike to 50% and stays there. 
> When I click on any of the sub-folders the cpu will go down to 0%.
> 
> My Evolution is converted from an old version(FC11). I converted it by first creating a backup and then do a restore. I receive email 
> by 'Local Delivery' and send email using 'Sendmail'.
> 
> Any idea what is causing the 50+% spike in CPU?

You might have broken index files. It can sometimes help to "vacuum" the
database. Here's a script I posted recently:

#!/bin/sh

cd ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/
for i in `find . -name folders.db`
        do
        echo "Rebuilding Table $i"
        sqlite3 $i "vacuum;"
done

Important: this is for Evo 3.x. Earlier versions used a different file
structure. Also, this should be done only after stopping Evo completely
("evolution --force-shutdown").

If that doesn't work, ask on the Evolution list:
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list

poc