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. -- 14:19:42 up 6:05, 2 users, load average: 1.12, 1.38, 1.62 A taste of linux http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/efever/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Fedora Core 3, KDE 3.3.2-1.2.3, OpenOffice 1.1.4 Registered Linux user 334501
