Comment 37 for bug 175233

This problem seems to be getting worse for me. Sometimes it will hang within minutes of launching Evolution or may last several hours without a problem, but I'm now guaranteed a minimum of four lockups a day, requiring me to kill the evolution-data-server task each time.

I now have a cron job setup to kill the evolution-data-server task every minute. This has worked around the hanging problem for me, but of course it prevents certain functions working properly if that function relies on the data server task just as cron kills it (such as email address suggestions as you type).

As a side point, I notice the evolution-data-server seems to interfere with other elements of the system when it hangs. Most notably MPlayer's framerate dropped to half a frame per second at the times evolution-data-server would hang. Killing the evolution-data-server instantly restored full speed in MPlayer. What on earth has Evolution got to do with MPlayer? And no, the CPU was not 100% either (I use NVidia VDPAU). It's part of the reason why I set my cron job to run every minute rather than every 30.