On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:29 -0400, Eric Morey wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've routinely experienced in recent weeks that the evolution process on > > my system is using more than 600 MiB of RAM according to the system > > monitor application in Ubuntu. Why is this so? Is this normal for others > > using evolution? > > That would depend on what you're measuring. If it's 600MB exclusively in > Evo, it sounds high. If it includes shared libraries from Gnome, not so > much. How can I find out? I'm just looking at the System Monitor GUI in Ubuntu and sorting by Memory.
> Do you see the memory usage growing significantly over time? > Yes. It seems to start out using ~24MB the of the course of 24 to 48 hrs, it increases to over 600. > I have Evo running constantly on its own desktop and currently it uses > about 270MB resident memory. > That seems like a lot to me, but then again I honestly don't know what evolution is doing beyond retrieving my email and storing contact information. > > > I'm not sure how to diagnose this issue. I found a mailing list thread > > thread from 2002 in a search for "evolution email memory" online. [1] It > > seemed to be related to my experience. I also subscribe to a number of > > mailing lists via IMAP and sort each list to its own folder. I use > > fastmail.fm for my mail server and use their email filtering to sort > > mail before I access it locally through evolution. There was some > > discussion on the thread about vfolders that I did not understand. What > > is a vFolder? I couldn't tell you if I was using one or not. > > A vFolder is a search folder, i.e. a view of one of more other folders > defined by a search expression (similar to a filter). It's not physical > -- you won't see it on your IMAP server for example -- but it's an > important part of Evo since both Trash and Junk are vFolders, not to > mention any you define yourself. I don't use the trash or junk folders. I expunge deleted mail almost immediately. And I use the Fastmail.fm's spam filtering that moves flagged mail to a "spam" IMAP folder. Is there a way to remove these vfolders? I've deleted a search folder that I don't remember making but I'm not able to delete an "Unmatched" search folder that I never really noticed before. How can I delete it? _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
