[Evolution] Evolution Process using > 600 MiB of RAM

[Eric Morey <eric glodime com>]

Hello,

I've routinely experienced in recent weeks that the evolution process on
my system is using more than 600 MiB of RAM according to the system
monitor application in Ubuntu. Why is this so? Is this normal for others
using evolution? 

I've noticed this recently since I've started using pidgin IM Client on
a regular basis. Could this be connected somhow? 

I'm not sure how to diagnose this issue. I found a mailing list thread
thread from 2002 in a search for "evolution email memory" online. [1] It
seemed to be related to my experience. I also subscribe to a number of
mailing lists via IMAP and sort each list to its own folder. I use
fastmail.fm for my mail server and use their email filtering to sort
mail before I access it locally through evolution. There was some
discussion on the thread about vfolders that I did not understand. What
is a vFolder? I couldn't tell you if I was using one or not.

Is this a bug? I don't think that I know enough to file a bug report at
this point.

Any thoughts? Any help would be appreciated.  

Eric...

[1] http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/evolution/2002-April/017876.html