Re: [Evolution] Virtual Memory gone mad

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 14:59 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Investigating why my computer had suddenly become very s.l.o.w, I
> noticed that virtual memory usage had become very large.  In particular
> the usage by evolution and evolution-data-server look large, amounting
> together to only a little less than 2 GBytes.  Can anyone explain this?
> Following are their entries extracted from "$ ps axuw".
>
>  PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> 2656  1.2  5.2 1668576 53708 ?       Sl   12:20   1:26 evolution
> 2827  0.0  0.2  313216  2804 ?       Sl   12:21   0:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server-2.24 ...
>
> For an old-line embedded systems programmer, who used to think in terms
> of KBytes, this looks a little excessive.

The column you should look at is RSS (Resident Set Size). The rest of
the memory is shared libraries. The %MEM column is also illustrative. If
Evo was really occupying 2GB and accounts for 5% of memory, you must
have 40GB on your machine. Impressive :-)

poc