FC5, evolution on 90% CPU

[András Horváth]

Hi,

I just upgraded from FC4 to FC5 (and upgraded) and get a strange problem:

When I start evolution, it begins to eat 85-90% of CPU continuously.
Even if there are no incoming mail to filter or other work to do. The
CPU temperature on my laptop is 76-78 C if evolution is running and
power consumption is very high.

I did not observe such phenomena in earlier versions.

What should be the problem?

Thank you in advance,

András

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http://www.fizika.sze.hu/~horvatha

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:42 +0200, András Horváth wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I just upgraded from FC4 to FC5 (and upgraded) and get a strange problem:
>  
>  When I start evolution, it begins to eat 85-90% of CPU continuously.
>  Even if there are no incoming mail to filter or other work to do. The
>  CPU temperature on my laptop is 76-78 C if evolution is running and
>  power consumption is very high.
>  
>  I did not observe such phenomena in earlier versions.
>  
>  What should be the problem?
>  
>  Thank you in advance, 
----
turn off mail filtering in Preferences.

I have found that to be an issue included failing to kill off some spamd
processes even if you quit evolution.

Craig

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>  On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:42 +0200, András Horváth wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I just upgraded from FC4 to FC5 (and upgraded) and get a strange problem:
>  > 
>  > When I start evolution, it begins to eat 85-90% of CPU continuously.
>  > Even if there are no incoming mail to filter or other work to do. The
>  > CPU temperature on my laptop is 76-78 C if evolution is running and
>  > power consumption is very high.
>  > 
>  > I did not observe such phenomena in earlier versions.
>  > 
>  > What should be the problem?
>  > 
>  > Thank you in advance,
>  ----
>  turn off mail filtering in Preferences.
>  
>  I have found that to be an issue included failing to kill off some spamd
>  processes even if you quit evolution.
>  
>  Craigdone
>   
Once again I am clueless or maybe evolution is to feature full. I can't
find where to tun of mail filtering in preferences. Where is that done?
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net&gt;

[Ambrogio]

Il giorno lun, 15/05/2006 alle 09.14 -0500, Aaron Konstam ha scritto:
>  On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>  Once again I am clueless or maybe evolution is to feature full. I can't
>  find where to tun of mail filtering in preferences. Where is that done? 
Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> Junk
remove check for junk mail

Bye
 Ambrogio

[taharka]

Howdy,

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>  On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:42 +0200, András Horváth wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I just upgraded from FC4 to FC5 (and upgraded) and get a strange problem:
>  > 
>  > When I start evolution, it begins to eat 85-90% of CPU continuously.
>  > Even if there are no incoming mail to filter or other work to do. The
>  > CPU temperature on my laptop is 76-78 C if evolution is running and
>  > power consumption is very high.
>  > 
>  > I did not observe such phenomena in earlier versions.
>  > 
>  > What should be the problem?
>  > 
>  > Thank you in advance,
>  ----
>  turn off mail filtering in Preferences.
>  
>  I have found that to be an issue included failing to kill off some spamd
>  processes even if you quit evolution. 
Whoa!! Thanks a billion for that tip. Unchecked junk mail filtering here
& retrieving new mail is about 100 times faster :-)) Now, I wonder what
happens to future junk mail?

>  Craig 
taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.

[David Cary Hart]

On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:31:30 -0400, taharka <res00vl8(a)alltel.net&gt;
opined:
>  Howdy,
>  
>  > turn off mail filtering in Preferences.
>  > 
>  > I have found that to be an issue included failing to kill off
>  > some spamd processes even if you quit evolution.
>  
>  Whoa!! Thanks a billion for that tip. Unchecked junk mail filtering
>  here & retrieving new mail is about 100 times faster :-)) Now, I
>  wonder what happens to future junk mail?
>   
Completely OT but, if you want FAST and light, try sylpheed-claws from
extras. The more that Evo tries to be LookOut, the less I like it.
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[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 12:37 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
>  On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:31:30 -0400, taharka
> <res00vl8(a)alltel.net&gt;
>  opined:
>  > Howdy,
>  > 
>  > > turn off mail filtering in Preferences.
>  > > 
>  > > I have found that to be an issue included failing to kill off
>  > > some spamd processes even if you quit evolution.
>  > 
>  > Whoa!! Thanks a billion for that tip. Unchecked junk mail filtering
>  > here & retrieving new mail is about 100 times faster :-)) Now, I
>  > wonder what happens to future junk mail?
>  > 
>  Completely OT but, if you want FAST and light, try sylpheed-claws from
>  extras. The more that Evo tries to be LookOut, the less I like it. 
----
This isn't about emulation of Outlook. This is about spamassassin/bayes
user db's and that can happen with any mail program that uses
spamassassin/bayes to locate/filter junk mail.

Craig

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 12:31 -0400, taharka wrote:
>  Howdy,
>  
>  On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>  > On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:42 +0200, András Horváth wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > 
>  > > I just upgraded from FC4 to FC5 (and upgraded) and get a strange problem:
>  > > 
>  > > When I start evolution, it begins to eat 85-90% of CPU continuously.
>  > > Even if there are no incoming mail to filter or other work to do. The
>  > > CPU temperature on my laptop is 76-78 C if evolution is running and
>  > > power consumption is very high.
>  > > 
>  > > I did not observe such phenomena in earlier versions.
>  > > 
>  > > What should be the problem?
>  > > 
>  > > Thank you in advance,
>  > ----
>  > turn off mail filtering in Preferences.
>  > 
>  > I have found that to be an issue included failing to kill off some spamd
>  > processes even if you quit evolution.
>  
>  Whoa!! Thanks a billion for that tip. Unchecked junk mail filtering here
>  & retrieving new mail is about 100 times faster :-)) Now, I wonder what
>  happens to future junk mail? 
----
after things have settled down, you can probably turn it back on. It's
likely that something has happened to you user bayes db.

That's why I find it helpful to kill off any spamd processes that seem
to linger after I close evolution. You can try moving your user
spamassassin settings... 'mv $HOME/.spamassassin $HOME/.spamassassin.bak
and then launching evolution again and then turn on junk mail filtering.

In the end, I just shut it off since I do have spamassassin running on
my mail server and though having my own user bayes db seemed to pick up
some more via the training within Evolution, eventually it became a
nightmare.

Craig

[András Horváth]

Hi,

Thank you for tips but no one solves my problem. I switched off spam
filters, removed $HOME/.spamassasin but still have the following first
lines in 'top':

  6244 horvatha  15   0  238m  39m  19m S 82.4  9.1   2:28.36 evolution
 2121 root      15   0 13812 2972 2268 S 12.6  0.7   2:20.31 gdm-binary

What is this gdm-binary? If I exit from Evolution it disappears also.
Is it important?

Thank you in advance,

András

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 22:18 +0200, András Horváth wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Thank you for tips but no one solves my problem. I switched off spam
>  filters, removed $HOME/.spamassasin but still have the following first
>  lines in 'top':
>  
>    6244 horvatha  15   0  238m  39m  19m S 82.4  9.1   2:28.36 evolution
>   2121 root      15   0 13812 2972 2268 S 12.6  0.7   2:20.31 gdm-binary
>  
>  What is this gdm-binary? If I exit from Evolution it disappears also.
>  Is it important?
>  
>  Thank you in advance,
>  
>  András 
I saw this advice preciously about stopping junk scan as a way to reduce
the cpu use of evolution. I have scanning on and do not have the cpu use
problem. The real problem must be somewhere else.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net&gt;

[András Horváth]

>  I saw this advice preciously about stopping junk scan as a way to
> reduce
>  the cpu use of evolution. I have scanning on and do not have the cpu use
>  problem. The real problem must be somewhere else. 
I did a lot of change in Evolution preferences but the problem is
still alive. The only significant observation is that when I start
Evolution, gdm-binary (which runs forever) begins to eat 10-15% CPU
(while Evolution get 80-90%). After I exit Evolution, gdm-binary goes
back to near 0% CPU.

What is the connection between Evolution and gdm-binary? It is very
strange! I have no idea.

Thank you in advance,

András

-- 
http://www.fizika.sze.hu/~horvatha

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:23 +0200, András Horváth wrote:
>  > I saw this advice preciously about stopping junk scan as a way
> to reduce
>  > the cpu use of evolution. I have scanning on and do not have the cpu use
>  > problem. The real problem must be somewhere else.
>  
>  I did a lot of change in Evolution preferences but the problem is
>  still alive. The only significant observation is that when I start
>  Evolution, gdm-binary (which runs forever) begins to eat 10-15% CPU
>  (while Evolution get 80-90%). After I exit Evolution, gdm-binary goes
>  back to near 0% CPU.
>  
>  What is the connection between Evolution and gdm-binary? It is very
>  strange! I have no idea.
>  
>  Thank you in advance,
>  
>  András 
Well gdm-binary is running on my machine, but it does not appear to take
too much cpu time in top (can't even see it) nor in ps output.

Has no man page so I don't know what it does. Maybe someone else does.

-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net&gt;

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:47 PM -0500 5/16/06, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:23 +0200, Andrˆ°s Horvˆ°th wrote:
> > > I saw this advice preciously about stopping junk scan as a way to reduce
> > > the cpu use of evolution. I have scanning on and do not have the cpu use
> > > problem. The real problem must be somewhere else.
> >
> > I did a lot of change in Evolution preferences but the problem is
> > still alive. The only significant observation is that when I start
> > Evolution, gdm-binary (which runs forever) begins to eat 10-15% CPU
> > (while Evolution get 80-90%). After I exit Evolution, gdm-binary goes
> > back to near 0% CPU.
> >
> > What is the connection between Evolution and gdm-binary? It is very
> > strange! I have no idea.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Andrˆ°s
> Well gdm-binary is running on my machine, but it does not appear to take
> too much cpu time in top (can't even see it) nor in ps output.
>
> Has no man page so I don't know what it does. Maybe someone else does. 
    []# locate gdm-binary
    /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
    []# rpm -qif /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
    Name        : gdm
     ...

So it's part of GDM, the Gnome Display Manager, a replacement for XDM.  Gdm
is just a script that starts gdm-binary.
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[taharka]

How do,

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 11:16 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>  On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 12:31 -0400, taharka wrote:
>  > Whoa!! Thanks a billion for that tip. Unchecked junk mail filtering here
>  > & retrieving new mail is about 100 times faster :-)) Now, I wonder what
>  > happens to future junk mail? 
OK, future junk mail is now received in the "Inbox" (finally received
some).

>  ----
>  after things have settled down, you can probably turn it back on. It's
>  likely that something has happened to you user bayes db. 
Turning back on produces no change.

>  That's why I find it helpful to kill off any spamd processes that
> seem
>  to linger after I close evolution. You can try moving your user
>  spamassassin settings... 'mv $HOME/.spamassassin $HOME/.spamassassin.bak
>  and then launching evolution again and then turn on junk mail filtering. 
Tried this, turned junk filtering on again & a new "$HOME/.spamassassin"
was created. Retrieving new mail is even slower than before :-(

>  In the end, I just shut it off since I do have spamassassin running
> on
>  my mail server and though having my own user bayes db seemed to pick up
>  some more via the training within Evolution, eventually it became a
>  nightmare. 
I've shut it off again & new mail retrieval is once again speedy :-) I
may have to leave it off unless any one has any suggestions?

>  Craig 
taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.

[jery_wang]

I had the same problem as you before... the problem comes from DBUS

If you start Evo. in command line you will have the following error:

libnm_glib_dbus_init: error, org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound raised:
 Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory


Simple start the messagebus service...

>  service messagebus start 
restart Evo., and everything should be fine...

Cheers,

ROm


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