FC3 memory (evolution)

Sharon Kimble skimble04 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 14:23:58 UTC 2005


William John Murray wrote:

>   Hello there,
>      Since the memory management of FC3 apps is a hot topic, can I ask
> advice on reduction of the amount taken by evolution?
>   My 'box' has a P3 1.8GHz with 256Mb, not a vast amount but it ran
> FC1/FC2 just fine.
>    But today 'top' 'M' looks like:
> 
>      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 28595 murray    15   0  158m  39m  13m S  1.0 16.0   1:14.69
> evolution-2.2
> 29371 murray    15   0  101m  31m  15m S  0.3 12.7   0:26.98 firefox-bin
> 28661 murray    18   0 31644  17m 2160 S  0.0  7.1   0:08.26 spamd
>  4720 root      15   0 79196  16m 4912 S  3.3  6.5  13:29.79 X
> 28657 murray    18   0 31832  15m 2076 S  0.0  6.2   0:12.04 spamd
> 28660 murray    18   0 31392  14m 2088 S  0.0  5.9   0:07.95 spamd
> 28659 murray    18   0 31732  14m 2108 S  0.0  5.8   0:07.83 spamd
> 28658 murray    18   0 31524  14m 2088 S  0.0  5.8   0:08.83 spamd
> 28470 murray    15   0 40128  10m 6248 S  0.0  4.2   0:29.52
> gnome-terminal
> 28372 murray    25  10 34704  10m 6880 S  0.0  4.2   0:04.41
> rhn-applet-gui
> 28364 murray    15   0 44796 9664 7164 S  0.0  3.8   0:05.13 nautilus
> 28602 murray    15   0 85904 9112 6040 S  0.0  3.6   0:02.86
> evolution-excha
> 2
> etc.
> 
> There are 5 'spamd' processes started by evolution, and each has a
> resident 15m, plus the 40m of the main system. If I start anything else
> I get horrendous paging.
> 
>   Evolution is a 'killer-ap' for me (Exchange) but does anyone know why
> it needs 5 spamd process, or how I can educe its memory impact?

Bill.
I think that the culprit is 'spamassassin', with one 'spamd' being spawned
for each email account that is being checked. Simplest solution is to
either not use spamassassin or not check so many email accounts. Next
simplest solution, is to increase them amount of ram if you can. That way
it won't appear so sluggish and will speed everything else up as well.

Hope it helps
Sharon.
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