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 >>> > ______________________________**_________________ >>> > Geary mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > >>> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/geary<http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geary> >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >> Geary mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/geary<http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geary> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > Geary mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/geary<http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geary> > _______________________________________________ Geary mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geary
