On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 15:22 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > Has anyone else had this problem? Is it a bug? > > Every now and them my compose window freezes and freezes all other > applications on my machine. My hard drive comes on and continues to run > for no apparent reason. The CPU does not seem to be being used but can > only recognize a keyboard or mouse command every 10 - 30 seconds or so. Is there a way to reproduce this reliably ?
>
> The only way out is to Ctrl-Alt-Fx; login as root killall -u user and
> reboot. It feels like the compose widow has set up a loop. I say feels
reboot ? Is the system thrashing ?
> like because I have been unable to catch it with top or see if a
> continuous swap has been going on.
If disk is thrashing, open up a terminal, and shutdoen evolution, set
memory limits and startup evolution from the terminal.
$ evolution --force-shutdown
$ ulimits -v 500000
$ evolution
Try obtaining a bt of evolution from command line, this might help the
developer. ( http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces )
>
> It is not a new problem. I have had it happen to me in FC5, FC6 and now
> F-7. This freezing is rare and seems random, but persistent.
Have you filled a bugzilla for the same ?
>
> Is there any way I can capture what is happening. message log doesn't
> seem to reveal anything.
ps: i am not a evolution developer.
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