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Unexpected Disk I/O While Composing Evolution Message

Asked by cmnorton

I have a Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 2.00GHz with 3/4 GB RAM. It gives pretty good performance.

I was composing a message in Evolution. I was doing this at least 15 minutes, and it could have been longer upwards of 1/2 hour to 3/4 hour.

All of sudden there was an immense amount of disk I/O that would not stop. It basically caused the system to freeze. I was able to get to a command line, and if I had it to do over, I should have killed evolution.

Is this a bug? If not, what is it? What info can I capture to get a better understanding of what was oging on, other than top or ps?

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Best Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

This could have been trackerd running to index your files. Possibly not related to Evolution.

Using "top" you can often see the offending program at the top of the list.

You can configure trackerd with System --> Preferences --> Indexing Preferences.

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cmnorton (octopusgrabbus) said : 		#2

Thank you. This is a good thing for me to check.