Re: [Evolution] Evolution a memory hog :-)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

This tells me nothing.

 - how many mailboxes do you have
 - how many messages are in each
 - what type is each mailbox.

For all I know you have a million messages, in which case that much
memory use is quite fair.


On 03 May 2001 08:32:33 +0600, Bryan Klingner wrote:
> Okay, here's what I get as far as memory usage:
>
> X: 13484K
> evolution:            7716K
> evolution-address:    6252K
> evolution-calendar:   5100K
> evolution-executive:  4840K
> evolution-mail:      50360K
>
> What's up with that?
> I'm using the lastest snapshot, RH 7.1, and checking my mail using IMAP.
> Also, my messages don't seem to go out to the evo list. to do this I
> should be sending them to evolution ximian com, right?
>
> Bryan
>
> On 03 May 2001 18:49:04 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> > Well how much do you mean by 'bloats up'?  Numbers?  How many messages,
> > how much memory, how many folders of what sort (local, imap, vfolder,
> > maildir, mbox, etc).
> >
> > Also note that each evolution-mail instance is just a thread, so does
> > not consume 'n' amounts of that memory (where you have 'n' threads),
> > just one.
> >
> > We've spent a long time making the mail backend as lean as possible
> > (right down to using custom memory allocators and whatnot, and not
> > duplicating common strings).  So basically its unlikely to get a whole
> > lot better (the tree view is still under some development too, but i
> > also doubt that will either).
> >
> >  !Z
> >
> > On 03 May 2001 15:36:17 +0930, Andrew Reid wrote:
> > > Just a comment that I thought that I'd make in passing...
> > >
> > > While enjoy using Evolution as my mail client, I have one small gripe.
> > >
> > > When running top (then S-M) I see evolution above X in memory usage.
> > > I've got 128MB RAM on my notebook, and it's generally not a problem.
> > >
> > > It worries me however that whenever the folders exceed a couple of
> > > thousand messages, it bloats up. This could, and very well may be a beta
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > I'm prepared to live with it-- I'm putting another 128MB in there
> > > anyway, it just concerns me that it's so big.
> > >
> > > Can someone from Ximian clarify/comment on this? I noticed this with
> > > Nautilus (which I promptly removed) too -- sucking up way too much
> > > memory.
> > >
> > > Evolution's a great product, well done. May the good work continue!
> > >
> > >    - andrew
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Andrew Reid                   email: andrew reid plug cx
> > >                               www:   http://www.plug.cx
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> > >  why aren't there more 
> > >  happy people?"
> > >
> > >
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