Version? Distro? On Mon, 31 May 2004, bopolissimus X platypus wrote:
> 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 > > -- 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
