Evolution using large amount of resident RAM in Hardy

[Matthew Tighe]

Evolution, if left open during the day, will eventually eat up memory like it's cheap movie theater popcorn. In about 4 hours today it grew to 1.5GB virtual and 1.0GB resident. Restarting it and opening the same mailbox takes back down to 513MB virtual and 31MB resident. This occurs when connecting with the exchange connector.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Matthew Tighe (tighem)]

I went ahead and did it but this is a different version of Evolution. It's now just super slow. I opened up another but because I don't see the RAM usage like before.

[Matthew Tighe (tighem)]

I should add Evolution no longer stays open long enough to eat up the RAM, so maybe this is a fix afterall :)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Olivia (oli-maia)]

I'm using Hardy and I'm having a similar problem. If I leave Evolution open and minimized, it seems to be all ok for quite some time, but if I try to plug in an usb external drive or, say, change the wallpaper (and when I want to change wallpaper I might spend some time with the appearance window open), Evolution starts using 500mb of ram! Sometimes (that goes for when I plug an external drive) I can't even get it closed, because the system hangs entirely, so the only option I have left is to force a reboot.

At first I thought it was something with the external drives (well, maybe it is), but just now it happened when I had the appearance window open, and when at last I could close it and open the system monitor, I noticed how much ram Evolution was using, and it was minimized!

I'm not much of a geek expert, but let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

is someone still seeing this with hardy or intrepid?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.