By 2.54 I assume you mean 2.5.54?
> > > I have retested this with 2.4.20-2.54, 2.5.63 and 2.5.63-mm1...
> > > and have attached the files to this message
> >
> > Thanks. Note how 2.4 is consuming a few percent CPU, whereas 2.5 is
> > consuming 100%. Approximately half of it system time.
>
> It seems is not "user" or "system" time what's being consumed, it's
> "iowait" Look below :-)
Your vmstat traces were showing tons of user time as well as system
time. Please make sure that you have the latest version of procps,
from http://surriel.com/procps/ or http://procps.sourceforge.net/
> > It does appear that some change in 2.5 has caused evolution to go berserk
> > during this operation.
>
> I wouldn't say it's exactly Evolution what's going berserk. Doing a
> "top -s1" while trying to reply to a big e-mail message, I've noticed
> that "top" reports "iowait" starting at ~50%, then going up very fast
> and then staying up at 90-95% all the time. This happens on 2.5.63
> and 2.5.63-mm1, however, on 2.4.20-2.54 kernel, "iowait" stays all
> the time exactly at "0%" and idle time remains steady at 90-95%.
Well certainly the IO stream _looks_ like it is stuck in IO-wait a lot.
It is strange that this has been happening for a couple of months and seems
to only affect Felipe Solana's copy of evolution. I still can't get my copy
to spellcheck a thing. I need to wrestle with it a bit more.
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