Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

[John Mellor]

I have also observed this problem, not just in Evolution, but also in
Firefox.  In my case, the problem appears to be either (a) mail and web
pages that contain images or videos that have problematic render engines on
Linux, or (b) massive processor overload when web pages that have a large
number of videos on them (such as Facebook) try to render them all
simultaneously without limiting the resource utilization.

Because the problems are across more than one client application, I suspect
that the problem is actually an inability to limit resource utilization by
the desktop - in my case Gnome.  It has been like this for quite a few
Fedora releases now, and other than getting away from Gnome, I'm not sure
what else to do.  On an underpowered dual-core, these lockups are
devastating, and sometimes even require an ACPI reboot to recover from.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote:

> Everyone,
>
> I have about 6 desktop's running F20 with evolution 3.10.4 that have had
> problems related to the desktop gui 'freezing'.  I can go to a terminal
> interface by hitting <cntrl><alt>F2, and when I toggle back to the gui
> it is still not usable.   The screen is filled with the last object
> displayed in this case it is always evolution that does not respond, and
> I am unable to switch to anything else on the gui.  All panels are
> unaddressable.
>
> At first I thought the problem was gpaste so I removed it on a test
> desktop.  The symptoms appeared less often but were still present.  It
> seems to hang with evolution.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?  Can anyone help me debug this.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Greg Ennis
>
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