Evolution on Ubuntu 10.10 - Memory leak followed by crash when trying to open email

[Renato Garcia Teixeira]

Binary package hint: evolution

Issues related with bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/737597

Report generated during incident while system is still responsive.

top - 16:02:53 up 2:22, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.45, 0.71
Tasks: 223 total, 1 running, 222 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1990388k total, 1917820k used, 72568k free, 21740k buffers
                                            ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
                                           most of mem RES used.

Swap: 2003364k total, 559760k used, 1443604k free, 90896k cached
                                             ^^^^^^^^^
                                             high value

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
23457 rgteixei 20 0 2906m 1.4g 3640 D 6 75.9 0:18.73 evolution
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 18 15:54:18 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

[maros84 (mdabrowski84)]

I had to disable Visual Assistance from the Startup Application tool. This fixed all of my issues with evolution and the whole GNOME. Memory usage was quite high in some situations and this thing removed it completely.

It looks like Visual Assistance tool is causing some issues in gtk.