I am having the same problem with evolution. I am using evolution with Exchange server through evolution-mapi plugin. It start normaly and after 3-4 it consumes aprox 3GB of ram just for sitting there and doing nothing. I must mention that it has e big problem with opening HTML email when the email is long with many threds.(it does not open it at all)
kernel 3.2.0-27-generic Ubuntu 12.04 LTS -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654429 Title: evulution leaks memory Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool: Fix Released Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: evolution When evolution is left open it slowly eats the available memory (I have often seen >2GiB of memory usage by the evolution process ) and swap space. Sometimes it crashes all by itself, sometimes I have quit the program or kill the process. because the system comes to a craw because of the heavy swap usage. Even if this is not a memory leak I still have the impression that evolution has a "rather big" memory footprint... Ubuntu version : Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch) Release: 10.10 (Amd 64) Kernel version: 2.6.35-22-generic evolution version: Installed: 2.30.3-1ubuntu6 Candidate: 2.30.3-1ubuntu6 I'm attaching the logfiles of 2 Valgrind-evolution runs. --- Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu6 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4 Tags: maverick Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/654429/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
