FC5, evolution on 90% CPU

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue May 16 20:47:16 UTC 2006


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.

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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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