On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 01:03 -0400, Igor A. Nesterov wrote:
256 MB. It should be quite enough for a small-footprint xfce4 (I do not run GNOME), a dozen of xterms and one mail program. Disk activity and even desktop irresponsiveness is not an issue here. They can be to some extent explained by interference with VMware, although I have a long experience with it and do not recall such an impressive Linux-on-VM slowdown as Evolution had managed to do. The real issue is that a plain ascii mail even of the size 6MB caused so much trouble for Evolution. Some mentioned a known problem with large mail rendering. But what is to render in plain ascii text?
Did you check swap usage during the problem?
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