[Evolution] Massive memory usage in Evolution

["Oliver Marshall" <om skillsearch co uk>]

Just setup evolution 1.4 on a Mandrake 9.2 machne with the exchange connector. It all works ok, but is amazingly slow and the memory usage is massive, well, massive considering what its doing.

 

It seems to take forever to change from folder to folder, irrespective of how many items are in the folder. Some folders have about 6000 items, some have ten, but either way the memory usage is over 250mb most of the time and getting the contents of folders takes forever.

 

Am i right in assuming that the reason why the evolution-exchange-storage process is eating ram on this machine is because its trying to cache all the emails that it finds ? If so, is there a way of getting it to not do this ? If not, then is there any reason why i should be having such an amazingly slow  experience? I have used evolution with the connector on a mandrake 9 machine and i dont remember it being this slow, even when used with the same exchange mailbox.

 

Olly