Re: [Evolution] evolution-mail processes

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

That's the way Linux shows a multithreaded process. evolution-mail is
actually one process but spawns a number of worker threads to do it's
dirty work ;-)

Btw, each thread does not use ~15 megs, you only count the ~15 megs once
for all the processes total. So even though there are 6 evolution-mail's
at ~15 megs a piece, there is only a total of 15 megs being used by all
of them added up.

Jeff

On 27 Mar 2001 15:49:02 -0500, Carl Nygard wrote:
> Whenever I run evo, it starts up 6 (6!!) evolution-mail processes, each
> at ~15M, yielding ~90M.  Why do you start 6, and why does my 'ps aux'
> output look like:
>
> carl      8179  0.0  5.9 25184 15388 ?       S    09:14   0:11
> evolution-mail --  
> carl      8185  0.0  5.9 25184 15388 ?       S    09:14   0:00
> evolution-mail --
> carl      8186  0.0  5.9 25184 15388 ?       S    09:14   0:00
> evolution-mail --
> carl      8187  0.0  5.9 25184 15388 ?       S    09:14   0:00
> evolution-mail --
> carl      8188  0.0  5.9 25184 15388 ?       S    09:14   0:00
> evolution-mail --
> carl      8189  0.0  5.9 25184 15388 ?       S    09:14   0:00
> evolution-mail --
>
> It seems that 8179 is the only one that actually uses cpu cycles, all
> others are idle.  I have a feeling at other times I've seen even more
> mail processes running, up to 8 max I believe.  Even so, why so many?
> I'm actually running out of memory for other apps... (granted, netscape
> sucks up ~118M quite easily, and drives the X server skywards, so I'm
> not really blaming evo, but still...)
>
> Regards,
> Carl
>
>
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