[Evolution] Problems with the evolution system

[Andrew Bainbridge-Smith <Andrew Bainbridge-Smith csiro au>]

Greetings All,

When attempting to use the help system --- from the help menu --- I'm
getting the following error:

GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate 1449751426 bytes
aborting...

That's an awfully big chunk of memory that evolution is trying to
allocate!

System is sun4u Solaris 2.7, gnome and evolution installed via
redcarpet.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?  It is a well known problem?
And if so a gentle suggestion on where I should have looked first before
posting this email would be appreciated.

TA,
        Andrew