> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:46 -0500, Gustavo A. Lozano wrote: > > My evolution is generating a lot of crashes (currently I am up 2 date to > > everything in the yum development tree)... Before posting the bugzilla, > > I want to know about other experiences out there... I see a lot of evolution crashes as well as a pernicious "denial of workstation" ;-) I'll explain in a moment. It is not unusual for the evolution GUI to spontaneously abort, when it does it leaves the other evolution processes running. This happens once or twice a day and appears to be completely random. Interestingly, if it aborts while I'm composing mail not a single key stroke is lost when the draft is recovered so I'm assuming it has some graceful opportunity to save its state on the way down and is not an absolutely hard crash. The other problem I was seeing on a regular basis was all the resources of the machine being consumed such that I could not get to an alternate console, run ps or top, the machine was dragged to its knees. I'm pretty sure evolution in concert with spamd (filter incoming mail checkbox) was the culprit, but given how hard it was to do anything when the problem occurred I only have anecdotal evidence. I was often forced to resort to using the reset button. I suspect it was some type of fork bombing with spamd where it got caught in tight loop launching processes that would immediately die, but that's only speculation. I have not seen this problem since turning off the filter option on incoming mail. I've talked to David Malcom about this and he encouraged me to file a bugzilla, but it so hard to collect any information or see a pattern that I wasn't sure I saw the value in a bug report that simply asserted "evolution is doing something bad" ;-) -- John Dennis <jdennis@xxxxxxxxxx>