On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 21:55, Nelson Bartley wrote: > Interesting. I leave my Evo open all the time, and have never noticed > this issue. > > Currently all of my evolution processes combined are taking about 44MB > of memory, which I don't find to horrible, however it is a little high. > If you want for comparison I've got 20621 messages in cooker folder, > ~17000 in newb, and another 20000 or so spread around a few different > folders. Now I've got about 512MB of memory in the system, and it's > hardly ancient, but yes, I've had to kill oaf-slay a few times before > (though system never hung/died) > > Gizmo
Yeah, it's not a genuine crash / hang, it's just some kind of really severe leak which hogs resources to the point that the system's unusable. The hard disk is thrashing when it happens, but then 192MB isn't a lot of memory any more so I expect that's just using swap space rather than something meaningful. Odd that it's not as serious for you, though. It is a very instant thing; it's not a sudden build-up (for instance, Evo is currently taking up about 55.7MB of memory, and everything's running normally; if I left it and waited 15 minutes or so, it'd *suddenly* become unusable; right up to that point the situation would be the same as it is now). It's really rather odd, and hard to pinpoint to any particular cause. I guess I'll just have to hope miscellaneous fixes for 1.2.1 will rectify it :\ -- adamw
