Re: [Geary] Without folks?

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 18:20, johny why <johnywhy gmail com> wrote:
> Thx Mike. Reason is different.
>
> I noticed the always-running evolution-alarm-notify consumes more RAM 
> than any other process on my arch Linux. 3 other evolution processes 
> also appear to be always-running.

Oh I see! That's odd, that process is only using 12MB for me.

The evolution-* processes are part of Evolution Data Server, so there's 
not much I can do about their memory use, unfortunately.

Geary only needs evolution-addressbook-factory (currently using 23Mb 
RAM here), and that probably requires evolution-source-registry (12Mb 
RAM here). However if there are other EDS processes running such as the 
calendar factory then they may have been auto-started by other 
applications that use them (GNOME Shell or GNOME Calendar, for 
example). Disabling those processes may cause bugs in those programs.

As for evolution-alarm-notify, it gets started automatically by the XDG 
Autostart file that is installed as part of EDS: 
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop. See these 
instructions for disabling it: 
<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Autostart>

It might be worth asking any other questions on 
<https://discourse.gnome.org> or on the EDS mailing list 
<https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list> about memory 
use and/or how services can be selectively disabled, since this is 
really out of scope for this mailing list.

Cheers!
//Mike

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