Massive Evolution Mail memory leak
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
While there are lots of posts on Evolution memory leaks, this appears to be new. No Natty, evolution starts with around 60mb of usage, and climbs up. Over the past 90 minutes it reached 385mb. Finally killed it. Restarting goes back to the 60mb again. I ran it this time from the command line with: evolution --debug-file=
Here is the contents of this file:
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(evolution:2239): GLib-GObject-
(evolution:2239): GLib-GObject-
(firefox-bin:8739): LIBDBUSMENU-
** (<unknown>:9247): DEBUG: NP_Initialize
** (<unknown>:9247): DEBUG: NP_Initialize succeeded
** (<unknown>:9247): DEBUG: NP_Shutdown
NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
java version "1.6.0_22"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.10.2) (6b22-1.
OpenJDK Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode)
(firefox-bin:8739): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_remove: assertion `tag > 0' failed
(firefox-bin:8739): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_remove: assertion `tag > 0' failed
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No idea what's going on here. If I don't kill evolution regularly my ram gets eaten up and my system freezes. I have uninstalled evolution with the 'purge' option, and reinstalled. I then restored evolution from previously backed up settings, so it's possible there's some problem in my settings. But where? I have 4 imap+ accounts running, plus a pop service. There are about 60 emails in each account, with more archived in a local folder on my computer. I have about 5 local calendars, all measured in kb of data. Any thoughts as to what's going on? I'm aware that Ubuntu is ditching evolution for the next release, so need a work around until then. Cheers.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evolution 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 8 10:59:41 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I confirm, the beheaviour. With a fresh installed 11.04 ubuntu and unity evolution is taking more and more ram as messages are loaded. I can clearly see the increase of memory usage when I read a mail or change tabs around in the application.