Re: [Evolution] Memory Leaks in 1.4.4.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

No, but where in your email message or pictures did you claim such a thing?

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 12:05 -0400, Matthew A. R. Sherian wrote:
>     But should it consistently grow to use almost all system memory, at the expense of other applications.
>     
>     On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 11:52, Not Zed wrote: 
> >         Well its quite possible this isn't a memory leak ...
> >         
> >         If you just startup and do nothing, its using the minimum memory possible.  If you filter new mail, it might open new folders - causing memory usage to peak at a higher level.  Even if these folders are later freed it wont show up in top (top merely shows the virtual memory space allocated, not the actual heap usage).
> >         
> >         And the same goes for just running the checking mail process.
> >         
> >         On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 11:30 -0400, Matthew A. R. Sherian wrote: 
> > >             See below...
> > >             
> > >             On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 11:20, Not Zed wrote: 
> > > >                 We need more information.
> > > >                 
> > > >                 e.g.
> > > >                 what sort of mail accounts do you have 
> > > >             
> > >             Exchange, and Maildir 
> > > >                 are they checking mail automatically, and how often 
> > > >             
> > >             Every 5 minutes 
> > > >                 how much new mail did you receive in that time 
> > > >             
> > >             About 200 messages across accounts 
> > > >                 after the first snapshot was taken, did you use evolution at all, e.g. open folders
> > > >                 was the first snapshot taken as soon as evo started, or after you'd been using it some
> > > >                 etc. 
> > > >             
> > >             Just opened, no usage 
> > > >                 On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 09:08 -0400, Matthew A. R. Sherian wrote: 
> > > > >                     I have Evolution 1.4.4 and I believe it has a major memory leak.
> > > > >                     
> > > > >                     If you go to http://mars-tmc.hq.themunicenter.com/ I have screenshots showing the memory footprint last night after a clean reboot of the system. Then this morning With ONLY evolution running over night. 
> > > > >                     
> > > > >                     I have also left the machine running with only metacity/panel et. al. running overnight with no appreciable memory creep. 
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