Re: [Evolution] Very high memory usage

["Mike Leone" <turgon mike-leone com>]

> I have noticed that my memory usage in Evolution (via gtop) grows very
> high very quickly. This morning, I started E and it immediately went to
> 55 meg in evolution-mail and another 30 meg in the rest of Evolution.
>
> Then I did a Send/Receive and it poll 4 mailboxes (retreiving about 120
> messages.) At the end of this process the evolution-mail processes added
> up to just over 200 meg.
>
> I closed E and restarted it. Usage went back down to 55 meg until I
> checked mail, then it started growing again.
>
> Any ideas?

Yes; old issure. Evolution is a threaded program; top doesn't understand
threads. Ex: top shows 6 Evo processes, all using 20M. So you think Evo is
using 120M of memory.

No.

Total memory used by Evo is *20M*; all 6 share that one set of memory.