Re: [Evolution] checking local mail causes high CPU usage?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Tue, 2022-06-07 at 21:04 -0500, Tim McConnell via evolution-list
wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot the important stuff, I'm on Evolution 3.44.1-2  As of
> this morning it's now 3.44.2-1 and Gnome was updated as well. I'm
> waiting to see if that did the trick or not. Here's the rest of the
> Info: 
> > OS: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid x86_64 
> > Host: MS-7721 9.0 
> > Kernel: 5.17.0-1-rt-amd64 
> > Shell: bash 5.1.16 
> > DE: GNOME 42.1 
> > WM: Mutter 
> > WM Theme: Adwaita 
> > Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
> > Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
> > Terminal: kgx 
> > CPU: AMD A6-7400K Radeon R5 2C+4G (2) @ 4.092GHz 
> > GPU: AMD ATI Radeon R5 Graphics 
> > Memory: 2226MiB / 6972MiB 
> > WebKitGTK: 2.36.3-1

Am I right in interpreting this that you have 2Gb of memory and 6Gb of
swap?  If so, then you need to look at the memory usage of your various
programs - Evolution on my system is using 1.6Gb at the moment and I'm
not even looking at particularly large emails. My whole system is using
8Gb of my 16Gb and that's just "normal" desktop stuff.  It may be that
your high CPU usage is the system trying to cope with low memory and
large emails.

P.