Re: [Evolution] Evo 3.38.1 composer pauses

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 09:00 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On 11/17/20 8:51 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Does anyone else see this? My system is not overloaded, there's nothing
> > taking lots of CPU or IO.  However evolution and various WebKit
> > processes are each taking about 80-100Gb of virtual memory. Is this
> > normal? (Resident memory is within normal ranges.)
>
> Yes I've seen Evolution do that lag thing many times. Whatever goes on 
> inside the HTML composer is not well done.

So it's not me going mad! But this is plain text composing and I've
only noticed it since upgrading to F33 and 3.38.1

> The virtual memory use is part of WebKit and is called Gigacages. It 
> allocates huge zones of memory around compiled Javascript so that even 
> if some bug allowed direct memory accesses, it isn't mathematically 
> possible for it to reach sensitive data.
Err, OK. It just looks odd when I have 5 or 6 processes all taking
nearly 100Gb of virtual memory:

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                
                                                     
  81695 pete      20   0   99.1g 111556  90300 S   0.3   0.7   0:05.12 WebKitWebProces                        
                                                     
  77144 pete      20   0   98.0g  45280  38444 S   0.0   0.3   0:00.16 WebKitNetworkPr                        
                                                     
  81694 pete      20   0   98.0g  44680  37912 S   0.0   0.3   0:00.06 WebKitNetworkPr                        
                                                     
  77146 pete      20   0   85.4g 126724  95132 S   0.0   0.8   0:31.77 WebKitWebProces                        
                                                     
  77101 pete      20   0   84.1g 436828 128640 S   6.0   2.7   2:21.81 evolution                

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