Re: [Evolution-hackers] memory usage in evolution 2.8.0 and disk usage

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 20:43 +0400, Abylai Ospan wrote:

> I'v installed new evolution 2.8.0 and memory usage is lower -
> aproximately 200 MB (at the past memory usage is 500-600 MB) but disk
> usage is greatly increased ... I'm using top to control system load
> and when evolution doing mail check there is 0 % idle and 85% wait
> (disk usage):
> 
> Cpu(s): 18.2% us,  9.6% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 70.6% wa,  1.3% hi,
> 0.3% si
> Mem:   1555264k total,  1378232k used,   177032k free,    14392k
> buffers
> Swap:  1044184k total,   207188k used,   836996k free,   734028k
> cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 21874 aospan    16   0  206m 112m  19m S 22.5  7.4  30:05.01 evolution
> 
> How increase memory usage in evolution ? May be when evolution use
> more memory it don't use disks so hard ? 
> Thanks !

You can try this patch on evolution-data-server/camel

http://pvanhoof.be/files/camel_folder_summary_with_mmap_fixes11_data_alignment04.diff

But it's not recommended for non-software developers. It's not easy to
get it working unless you have a good knowledge of compiling softwares
like Evolution and its dependencies.

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