Bug 438241

Are you sure it's evolution-data-server and not gnome-keyring-daemon?

pretty sure since that is what top and system-monitor show. And that is the pid
I kill to get the cpu down to normal.

Next time it happens I'll take a screen shot.

Actually a stack trace with debugging symbols would be more useful:

  1) # debuginfo-install evolution-data-server  (as root)

  2) Read http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces/Details if you don't already
     know your way around GDB.

  3) When you see e-d-s maxing out the CPU, follow the instructions in the
     section "Obtaining a stack trace using GDB with a running program" and
     post the stack trace here.

This is what GDB tells me

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00110416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x00a333c7 in __poll (fds=<value optimized out>, 
    nfds=<value optimized out>, timeout=<value optimized out>)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
#2  0x00b755a2 in g_main_context_iterate (context=<value optimized out>, 
    block=<value optimized out>, dispatch=<value optimized out>, self=Could not
find the frame base for "g_main_context_iterate".
)
    at gmain.c:2945
#3  0x00b75c32 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=<value optimized out>)
    at gmain.c:2844
#4  0x02416b13 in bonobo_main () at bonobo-main.c:311
#5  0x0804b64c in main (argc=137886328, argv=0xbfad3414) at server.c:418


stopping this process takes cpu to 0
running 'cont' takes the CPU back up to 100%



  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 2980 kdekorte  20   0 75512 7384 5520 R 98.3  0.2 123:34.21 evolution-data-    
 2521 root      20   0  401m  44m 9912 R 66.2  1.4   3:41.37 Xorg     

Instead of "bt" can you try "thread apply all bt" in GDB?  That will show the
state of all threads in evolution-data-server, not just the main thread which
appears to be idle.

(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 3 (Thread 0xb7de6b90 (LWP 3000)):
#0  0x00110416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x00a333c7 in __poll (fds=<value optimized out>, 
    nfds=<value optimized out>, timeout=<value optimized out>)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
#2  0x007655a2 in g_main_context_iterate (context=<value optimized out>, 
    block=<value optimized out>, dispatch=<value optimized out>, self=Could not
find the frame base for "g_main_context_iterate".
)
    at gmain.c:2945
#3  0x00765c32 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=<value optimized out>)
    at gmain.c:2844
#4  0x00455f60 in link_io_thread_fn (data=Could not find the frame base for
"link_io_thread_fn".
) at linc.c:396
#5  0x0078c45f in g_thread_create_proxy (data=<value optimized out>)
    at gthread.c:635
#6  0x00b2551f in start_thread (arg=<value optimized out>)
    at pthread_create.c:297
#7  0x00a3dbae in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6

Thread 2 (Thread 0xb69a3b90 (LWP 3010)):
#0  0x00110416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x00a333c7 in __poll (fds=<value optimized out>, 
    nfds=<value optimized out>, timeout=<value optimized out>)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#2  0x007655a2 in g_main_context_iterate (context=<value optimized out>, 
    block=<value optimized out>, dispatch=<value optimized out>, self=Could not
find the frame base for "g_main_context_iterate".
)
    at gmain.c:2945
#3  0x00765c32 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=<value optimized out>)
    at gmain.c:2844
#4  0x001458b2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libebook-1.2.so.9
#5  0x0078c45f in g_thread_create_proxy (data=<value optimized out>)
    at gthread.c:635
#6  0x00b2551f in start_thread (arg=<value optimized out>)
    at pthread_create.c:297
#7  0x00a3dbae in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb7fe7730 (LWP 2967)):
#0  0x00110416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x00a333c7 in __poll (fds=<value optimized out>, 
    nfds=<value optimized out>, timeout=<value optimized out>)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
#2  0x007655a2 in g_main_context_iterate (context=<value optimized out>, 
    block=<value optimized out>, dispatch=<value optimized out>, self=Could not
find the frame base for "g_main_context_iterate".
)
    at gmain.c:2945
#3  0x00765c32 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=<value optimized out>)
    at gmain.c:2844
#4  0x005a2b13 in bonobo_main () at bonobo-main.c:311
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#5  0x0804b64c in ?? ()
#6  0x00973606 in __libc_start_main (main=Could not find the frame base for
"__libc_start_main".
) at libc-start.c:220
#7  0x0804a0f1 in ?? ()

Hmm, still no debuginfo for evolution-data-server, but Thread 2 appears to be
getting stuck somewhere in libebook.

With the latest debuginfo file for e-d-s (Thread 2 #4, now shows where in
ebook.c it is stuck)


(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 3 (Thread 0xb7e1db90 (LWP 2991)):
#0  0x00110416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x00a333c7 in __poll (fds=<value optimized out>, nfds=<value optimized out>,
timeout=<value optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
#2  0x007655a2 in g_main_context_iterate (context=<value optimized out>,
block=<value optimized out>, dispatch=<value optimized out>, self=Could not find
the frame base for "g_main_context_iterate".
)
    at gmain.c:2945
#3  0x00765c32 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=<value optimized out>) at gmain.c:2844
#4  0x00455f60 in link_io_thread_fn (data=Could not find the frame base for
"link_io_thread_fn".
) at linc.c:396
#5  0x0078c45f in g_thread_create_proxy (data=<value optimized out>) at
gthread.c:635
#6  0x00b2551f in start_thread (arg=<value optimized out>) at pthread_create.c:297
#7  0x00a3dbae in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6

Thread 2 (Thread 0xb67feb90 (LWP 3003)):
#0  0x00110416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x00a333c7 in __poll (fds=<value optimized out>, nfds=<value optimized out>,
timeout=<value optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
#2  0x007655a2 in g_main_context_iterate (context=<value optimized out>,
block=<value optimized out>, dispatch=<value optimized out>, self=Could not find
the frame base for "g_main_context_iterate".
)
    at gmain.c:2945
#3  0x00765c32 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=<value optimized out>) at gmain.c:2844
#4  0x02bc48b2 in startup_mainloop (arg=Could not find the frame base for
"startup_mainloop".
) at e-book.c:3773
#5  0x0078c45f in g_thread_create_proxy (data=<value optimized out>) at
gthread.c:635
#6  0x00b2551f in start_thread (arg=<value optimized out>) at pthread_create.c:297
#7  0x00a3dbae in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb801e730 (LWP 2960)):
#0  0x00110416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x00a333c7 in __poll (fds=<value optimized out>, nfds=<value optimized out>,
timeout=<value optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
#2  0x007655a2 in g_main_context_iterate (context=<value optimized out>,
block=<value optimized out>, dispatch=<value optimized out>, self=Could not find
the frame base for "g_main_context_iterate".
)
    at gmain.c:2945
#3  0x00765c32 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=<value optimized out>) at gmain.c:2844
#4  0x005a2b13 in bonobo_main () at bonobo-main.c:311
#5  0x0804b64c in main (argc=135486464, argv=0xbfe40774) at server.c:418
#0  0x00110416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

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