telepathy-butterfly using more RAM than firefox

[sara]

Binary package hint: telepathy-butterfly

Telepathy-butterfly uses more ram than firefox, firefox 156mb ram and telepathy using 365mb ram ie nearly one 3rd of my ram

this causes the machine to have fewer resorces to play with :(

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.29-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 12 19:35:43 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
SourcePackage: empathy

[sara (ms-sara-griffin)]

:~$ apt-cache policy telepathy-butterfly
telepathy-butterfly:
  Installed: 0.5.8-1
  Candidate: 0.5.8-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.8-1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
:~$ apt-cache policy empathy
empathy:
  Installed: 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 591119, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.