diet for evolution

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jul 22 07:50:49 UTC 2006


David Nielsen wrote:
> fre, 21 07 2006 kl. 22:17 -0700, skrev Otto Rey:
>> Well, i think that evolution have one or more memory leaks, because
>> more time you have running, more memory it seems to eat. But it's
>> true: if you don't use calendar and the other addtional stuff, you
>> don't need evlotuion, or, if you want, you can turn off several
>> plugins.
>> Addtional to memory launch, evolution-connector for M$ Exchange
>> sucks... it's almost always broken... or half-broken... With some
>> updates, it's looks like solid but with the next update, it's crash
>> again...
>> Whatever... i will profile evolution to see if i found a memory
>> leak... 
> 
> I think the problem with Evolutions memory use is largely fragmentation
> not leaking.
> 
> I'd like to mention that the default Evolution setup in FC loads the
> Spamassassin plugin which on my machine at least takes up 80megs of
> memory, replacing that with the bogofilter plugin turned out to be a
> good decision - I blogged a bit about that adventure*
> 
> Maybe we can get that plugin upstream as the default for great savings,
> running a daemon for spam training is probably a tad overkill anyways.
> 
> * http://lovesunix.net/blog/?p=102
> 

If you think this is a good default solution, would you mind getting 
this filed a RFE in Red Hat bugzilla? The evolution maintainer probably 
needs to look at this.

Rahul




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