I also stopped running it yesterday after a recent build because of
sustained system load.


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Charles Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Geary currently is a little too aggressive with its CPU usage.  I believe
> it's because we're trying too hard to make sure the local database is in
> sync with the server, something IMAP makes somewhat difficult
> unfortunately.  This is ticketed at <http://redmine.yorba.org/**
> issues/6602 <http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/6602>> if you'd like to
> track its progress.  It's something we'd like to take care of very soon.
>
> As to the memory usage, we've known about a memory leak for a while, and
> have recently traced much of the issue down to bugs in Vala and its
> libraries.  This is ticketed at 
> <http://redmine.yorba.org/**issues/5306<http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5306>>,
> and of course we'd also like to knock this out as soon as possible.
>
> The database size is due to Geary downloading some emails in the
> background.  Geary now has a configurable amount of time in the past it
> downloads messages to have local copies for fast access.  There's currently
> no way to tell Geary to discard email that's older than the date it tries
> to keep locally (Geary won't delete any local messages currently); that's
> ticketed at 
> <http://redmine.yorba.org/**issues/6073<http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/6073>>.
>  Also, it might be bigger than you expect because it's storing attachments
> and some other metadata as well as the messages themselves.
>
> Sorry I can't offer any specific help!  We're working on fixing these
> issues as soon as we can.  Thanks for your patience.
>
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Tom Most <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Mine eventually failed an allocation and died (SIGABRT).  I notice that my
>> geary.db file is now several hundred megabytes.  What was it doing,
>> downloading all of my archived e-mail?
>>
>> —Tom
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Rodrigo Cares <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>   Hi,
>>>
>>>  Here the same problem on archlinux.
>>>  $ geary --version
>>>  geary 0.3.0
>>>
>>>  Regards
>>>  --
>>>  Rodrigo Cares <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>  El jue, 21-03-2013 a las 03:48 -0007, Tom Most escribió:
>>>  > My Geary seems to be consuming all of my CPU (100%+ on my dual-core
>>>  > system) and a somewhat excessive amount of memory (710M resident).
>>>  >  It's still running, and apparently functioning normally aside from
>>>  > the above.
>>>  >
>>>  > The platform is 32-bit Arch Linux.  This is a build from git commit
>>>  > a87528f9dadf346a89a871f0f1a4f5**f9069eb586.
>>>  >
>>>  >  > ./geary --version
>>>  > geary 0.3.0pr1+trunk
>>>  >
>>>  > It's connected to a single GMail account, looking at the inbox, with
>>>  > two (one by the time you get this) compose windows open.  Is there
>>>  > anything I can do to the running process to diagnose this issue?
>>>  >
>>>  > —Tom
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