Bug 248322

Summary:	mail-notification took 98% CPU during mail check when network connection down
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Edmond <ymedhui>
Component:	mail-notification	Assignee:	Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Edmond 2007-07-16 03:23:33 UTC

Description of problem:

When network is down, mail-notification seem struck checking email and took 98%
of CPU.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

often

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setup mail-notification to check email every 15 min (I have gmail and POP3)
2. disconnect network
3. wait for the next mail check, run top to see mail-notification used up all CPU %
  
Actual results:

98% of CPU is used by mail-notification as reported by top

Expected results:

it should continue to check email, but CPU usage should be much lower.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Thorsten Leemhuis 2007-07-16 04:41:06 UTC

This is likely not a Fedora-specific problem. Thus I'd like to ask you to
participate upstream to help getting this fixed for all distributions.

There is a bug already; see
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?18367

The upstream maintainer is looking for somebody who find a good way to reproduce
it (I've seen the problem myself in the past, but only very sporadically)

Note that there is mail-notification 4.1 in updates-testing; it should land in
update-proper with the next push. Try that one please as well.

Comment 2 Edmond 2007-07-16 22:08:29 UTC

I will test the latest (just received it over yum) and report back.

Thanks for the help