hello all, when i run evolution for long periods, after a while, the RSS gets ridiculously large. now, i receive a *lot* of email. so maybe that's why. but still, i don't see why evolution should ever get to the point where it's RSS is something like 350MB. shouldn't it throw away some of that memory if it doesn't need it anymore? what information is it keeping around? i've actually turned off indexing on all my mailboxes and it still eats too much memory. turning off indexing doesn't seem to affect memory use, it just causes problems if evolution dies or the computer goes off (e.g., brownout) and when evolution starts it needs to rebuild the indexes).
when it gets to higher than around 100MB, the box gets slow because of swapping. top says that i've still got 250+MB of cached data. for example, just now, i see (extra information removed and information show reformatted, headers and data might still not line up).) PID %MEM VSZ RSS COMMAND 9084 17.7 144528 88724 evolution should i go with a smaller swap partition? would that help (there was a discussion recently on the kernel mailing list [i saw it excerpted on kerneltrap] about swap and computers with large disks? or is there some other evolution feature that i could use to make it use less memory? i could switch to sylpheed or kmail, but i like evolution's filtering, and i've already got everything set up correctly there :-). tiger -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
