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Evolution using too much memory & won't close

Bug #65614 reported by Jorge Valencia
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Expired
Critical
evolution (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I upgraded from dapper to edgy two days ago. Everything seems fine, except for Evolution. Every time I open it, the following sequence of events occurs:

1. Evolution starts, it uses 25 Mb from the memory.
2. Evolution checks for mail, then starts spamd & spamd-child.
3. As the mail is received, spamd & spamd-child rise --every one-- to 24 Mb and go back to 2/4 Mb.
4. Immediately, Evolution starts growing its memory demand. It stops on the 430 Mb boundary, which makes the computer almost useless.
5. I try to close Evolution: two out of three times, it freezes. The other time, it crashes and starts bug buddy.

I tried several tricks: un-checking the plug-ins, disabling the spam check, but it is always the same.

I filled a report on bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361346

Jorge

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Jorge Valencia (jorgevalenciag) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug, it has an upstream bug marking as confirmed and opening an upstream task

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Jorge Valencia (jorgevalenciag) wrote : Re: [Bug 65614] Re: Evolution using too much memory & won't close

OK, thanks.

Should I keep posting text dumps from Evolution?

I just got the -dbgsym for the Edgy version of Ubuntu, I was using the -dbg
packages, who where meant to be for Dapper. Maybe they will show more
info...

On 10/12/06, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your bug, it has an upstream bug marking as confirmed and
> opening an upstream task
>
> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
>
> ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #361346
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361346
>
> ** Also affects: evolution (upstream) via
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361346
> Importance: Unknown
> Status: Unknown
>
> --
> Evolution using too much memory & won't close
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/65614
>

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Saludos,

Jorge Valencia

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

what do you mean by "keep posting text dumps from Evolution"? If you provided one backtrace that's enough, no need to give extra work to bug triager, they already got load of bugs without having to get several time mention of the same issue. -dbg and -dbgsym package do the same job, the difference is that only some packages used to build a -dbg where -dbgsym are made without modifying the package

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Jorge Valencia (jorgevalenciag) wrote :

I installed the -dbgsym packages for Evolution and remove the -dbg packages, because I read the first ones are the indicated for Edgy.
Evolution crashed again, after using 3.0 Gb of Virtual Memory and 420 Mb of RSS Memory. I am attaching the dump with these new debugging packages. I hope they show more info.

Jorge

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Jorge Valencia (jorgevalenciag) wrote :

Sorry...
I did not read your comment until I already upload the new attachment +comment. Is there a way to delete it? If so, please delete it.

This is my first time using Launchpad. I would not want to give extra work load to anyone.

Jorge

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evolution:
status: Unknown → Needs Info
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evolution:
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

There is no way to delete a comment, don't worry though, a comment is no problem

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evolution:
status: New → Invalid
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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

@Jorge: is this still an issue on current Evolution? There has been a lot of memory runaways fixed, and I do not know of any other users with problems closing Evo nowadays.

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

comment from upstream:

"Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore.
GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there
will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use.
By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new
functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a
newer version of GNOME.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer
version of GNOME 2.22.3.
"

Same here, feel free to re open the bug if it's still an issue with latest evolution, thanks.

Changed in evolution:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: Invalid → Expired
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