F7: Evolution constantly crashing

Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo rodolfo.alcazar at padep.org.bo
Fri Jun 29 11:30:00 UTC 2007


Am Freitag, den 29.06.2007, 06:50 +0930 schrieb Tim:
> Aaron Konstam:
> >> Doing a check for new mail every minute would indeed tax the system
> >> unduly.
> 
> Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo:
> > mmm... why? is picking up mail so a heavy task? picking up mail from one
> > account should take 15 seconds of 90% CPU/mem load? That's by far too
> > much!
> 
> Why could rapid mail checking be a DoS? - Typically, ISPs have *far*
> more customers than their servers can simultaneously handle.  They rely
> on most of the customers not using the mail server at the same time, nor
> very frequently.  If all their clients did that, or just too many of
> them, it ties the server up (a DoS to others trying to use it).  Polling
> POP, or even IMAP, isn't a replacement for running your own SMTP server.

Tim, maybe you missed something, so I repeat:

1) Evolution crashed constantly while I was picking main from 4 accounts
evey minute in Fedora7. Then I made clear the 4 accounts correspond to 2
servers in my LAN. No external ISPs! That used to work fine (4
picking-ups each every minute) in FC6. Solution: pick up mail every
15/30 min. Worked like a charm. But Evo gets slow once in a while.

2) Anyway, if an ISP blocks constant pop3/imap/(s) email picking, is no
reason for Evolution to horribly crash and slow the pc.

> Why is your client using heavy CPU checking for mail? - My guess is that
> spam assassin is looking at it coming through, checking against a
> plethora of rules.  Evolution can get nastily heavy and slow at
> filtering mail, especially if you're also doing the remote checks.

Right and thanks 4 the tip, Ive supposed the same, and a week ago added
this crontab rule, just to try what happens:

0 0 * * * /bin/rm /home/rodolfoap/.spamassassin/*

Anyway, evolution got slow a couple of times again. Tried rpm -e
spamassassin, but it sez evolution needs him. haha.... I tried switching
to thunderbird, but I perl-export evolution's contacts BerkleyDB to my
LDAP server, and sync Evo contacts/tasks/memos with my Palm, which
really works GOOD. Hope the bug get fixed soon.

Thanks, bye!
-- 
Rodolfo Alcazar
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