Re: [Evolution] Evolution Process using > 600 MiB of RAM

[Eric Morey <eric glodime com>]

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:29 -0400, Eric Morey wrote:
> > 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? 
>
> That would depend on what you're measuring. If it's 600MB exclusively in
> Evo, it sounds high. If it includes shared libraries from Gnome, not so
> much. 
How can I find out? I'm just looking at the System Monitor GUI in Ubuntu
and sorting by Memory.


> Do you see the memory usage growing significantly over time?
Yes. It seems to start out using ~24MB the of the course of 24 to 48
hrs, it increases to over 600.


> I have Evo running constantly on its own desktop and currently it uses
> about 270MB resident memory.
That seems like a lot to me, but then again I honestly don't know what
evolution is doing beyond retrieving my email and storing contact
information.  


> > 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.
>
> A vFolder is a search folder, i.e. a view of one of more other folders
> defined by a search expression (similar to a filter). It's not physical
> -- you won't see it on your IMAP server for example -- but it's an
> important part of Evo since both Trash and Junk are vFolders, not to
> mention any you define yourself.

I don't use the trash or junk folders. I expunge deleted mail almost
immediately. And I use the Fastmail.fm's spam filtering that moves
flagged mail to a "spam" IMAP folder. Is there a way to remove these
vfolders?

I've deleted a search folder that I don't remember making but I'm not
able to delete an "Unmatched" search folder that I never really noticed
before. How can I delete it?