Re: [Evolution] Memory Usage

[James Ogley <james ogley pinnacle co uk>]

> Here's a snapshot from top.  Is it just me, or is this a HUGE amount of
> memory.  I've only got one instance of evo started, so why the massive
> hit to RAM?  Why six processes?  Oh, don't get me wrong, I LOVE THIS
> PROGRAM.  (User column removed for obvious reasons).

It's because of the way Linux handles multi-threaded apps.

It's because Evolution is multi-threaded, which allows you to do more
than one thing at a time with it :)

Oh, and that's not 19M each for the threads, that's 19M in total.
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James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc
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