I can confirm as well. 100% recreatable. All I have to do is hit the <new message> button and viola`
top - 09:14:25 up 7 days, 23 min, 13 users, load average: 0.51, 1.95, 1.83 Tasks: 238 total, 1 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 44.5%us, 22.1%sy, 0.3%ni, 32.5%id, 0.5%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2073768k total, 1762076k used, 311692k free, 73632k buffers Swap: 4192924k total, 1133468k used, 3059456k free, 498652k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 31689 bedge 20 0 68204 18m 14m S 41 0.9 0:01.79 evolution-excha 31672 bedge 20 0 136m 39m 24m S 39 1.9 0:02.78 evolution 9058 bedge 20 0 7596 4136 1420 S 30 0.2 912:30.70 gconfd-2 8950 root 20 0 354m 147m 28m S 7 7.3 238:47.33 Xorg I've tried disabling all extensions (except exchange of course) with ne change. I also disabled all calendars, remote & local, no change. Don't know what else to add, here some machine info: Dell precision 490 0 %> uname -a Linux ice 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux 0 9:14:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 0 %> cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep -i cpu cpu family : 6 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz cpu MHz : 2992.628 cpu cores : 2 cpuid level : 10 cpu family : 6 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz cpu MHz : 2992.628 cpu cores : 2 cpuid level : 10 0 %> dpkg -l | grep evolution ii evolution 2.22.1-0ubuntu3.1 groupware suite with mail client and organizer ii evolution-common 2.22.1-0ubuntu3.1 architecture independent files for Evolution ii evolution-data-server 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 evolution database backend server ii evolution-data-server-common 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 architecture independent files for Evolution Data Server ii evolution-exchange 2.22.1-0ubuntu1 Exchange plugin for the Evolution groupware suite ii evolution-plugins 2.22.1-0ubuntu3.1 standard plugins for Evolution ii evolution-plugins-experimental 2.22.1-0ubuntu3.1 experimental plugins for Evolution ii evolution-webcal 2.21.92-0ubuntu1 webcal: URL handler for GNOME and Evolution ii libebook1.2-9 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 Client library for evolution address books ii libecal1.2-7 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 Client library for evolution calendars ii libedata-book1.2-2 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 Backend library for evolution address books ii libedata-cal1.2-6 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 Backend library for evolution calendars ii libedataserver1.2-9 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 Utility library for evolution data servers ii libedataserverui1.2-8 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 GUI utility library for evolution data servers ii libexchange-storage1.2-3 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 Backend library for evolution calendars ii libexchange-storage1.2-dev 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 Backend library for evolution calendars (development files) ii libmultisync-plugin-evolution 0.82-8build1 Ximian Evolution plugin for MultiSync ii openoffice.org-evolution 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6 Evolution Addressbook support for OpenOffice.org -- evolution and gconfd eat CPU time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222259 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs