Empathy seems to link with the mapi global adress book in Evolution (from an MS Exchange server 2007/2010). As there are more than 25000 entries in this company addressbook on my system, Empathy seems to "choke" and uses about 800 MB of virtual memory (and takes minutes to start). After deleting this exchange global adress book (filename mapigal*) from ~/.cache/evolution/addressbook/ , empathy uses about 20 MB virtual memory and is fast again.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988906 Title: Memory Usage is exceptionally high Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When I start Empathy it uses over 300MB of RAM. When I open a chat window, that window also uses over 300MB of RAM. This puts Empathy at over half a gig of usage just on load. I just updated to 12.04 from 11.10. The problem started immediately after the update. I have a Facebook account, two Yahoo accounts, a GTalk account, an MSN account and an AIM account configured. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: empathy 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: d085a3ab00a836cc91decdaa0fcb2391 CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525 Date: Thu Apr 26 10:38:05 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-25 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/988906/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
