Re: [Evolution] Evo memory use

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

cheers();

> I've been experiencing some problems lately with running low on memory. 
> This sort of surprised me as I've got 512MB.  Occasionally an Evo
> component dies with an out-of-memory message. 
>
> Running gnome-system-monitor shows
>
> evolution                    9.9MB
> evolution-addressbook        7.5MB
> evolution-alarm-notify       5.3MB
> evolution-calendar           6.1MB
> evolution-executive-summary  5.3MB
> evolution-mail              53.2MB

evolution-mail  16.9MB


> Assuming this is true, is there a way to keep my mail archives available
> without having them consume huge amounts of memory?  I have mail-list
> messages in at least one folder dating back to July of 2002 that I'd
> like to keep and occasionally search, but I don't need them all the
> time. 

I don't know, if that is the cause -- but you can disable indexing of
the body contents of local mail folders:
 Right Click / Properties

You can manually remove those index files next to the mbox mail files to
see, if it really matters.

...guenther


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