Re: [Evolution] Memory leak

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Just sounds like it was reindexing one of your folders.

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:22 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Interesting and coincidental to see that someone on this list had a
> memory leak recently, when today, I first encountered one on my system.
>
> I have been running 2.02 evolution for the past few months with little
> problem. Am accessing an LDAP database as well and am running Fedora
> Linux.
>
> The scenario I had, that I can remember. Was as follows:
>
> 1) Opened up an a new message to compose. I may have had another
> composition window open at this point as well.
> 2) During my new composition went back to the main evol screen and
> created a new contact. Added the contact. It went into my personal
> folder
> 3) Dragged the new contact into my LDAP folder.
> 4) Went back to my original composition and started typing.
> 5) At this point things slowed down to a near halt. So I exitted
> evolution.
> 6) Tried to start evolution, but it would not.
>
> I had to get into command line mode. did a ps -eaf | grep evol command
> and saw 4 evolution processes running. I watched as one was using about
> 8% cpu but the memory was at 78% and was increasing slowly. Killed all
> processes via (kill -15) and then logged back into my account.
>
> Was able to get back in and that is how I am sending you mail at this
> moment.
>
> Since others have seen this in 2.0.3 and I have in 2.0.2, this appears
> to be a common bug that has not been fixed.
>
> I guess I should try and reproduce this and find the trick. When I have
> time.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Meyer
> GenDesign Corporation
>
>
>
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