[ale] Evolution is a hog

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Dec 10 11:53:34 EST 2007


Are you using maildir format instead of mbox?

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 11:27 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 11:16 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I was trying to send email to someone and got an error in Evolution
> > that
> > there were too many open files
> > 
> > [cfowler at shuttle proc]$ lsof | grep evolu | wc -l
> > 1471
> > 
> > Why does evolution need 1471 open fds?
> > 
> > I'm running 2.10.3
> 
> The same problem still exists in Evolution 2.12.1.  I have been trying
> to figure out enough information on this to get things going in the form
> of a bug report and additional information, but I have thus far been
> unsuccessful.  If you look at the output of lsof|grep evolu, you can see
> that many of those are duplicated file descriptors for the same files,
> which is somewhat annoying.  This would be, I think, considered to be a
> resource leak.  It just looks like it isn't closing file descriptors
> when it is done with them, and opening new ones when it needs to use
> them again...
> 
> No idea why that hasn't been fixed already, though.
> 
> Then again, Thunderbird has its issues, too.  It particularly has some
> troubling issues that prevent me from using it; the file descriptor
> problem in Evolution is relatively minor compared to the issues that I
> have had with Thunderbird with even their most recent releases.
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
-- 
James P. Kinney III          
CEO & Director of Engineering 
Local Net Solutions,LLC        
770-493-8244                    
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part




More information about the Ale mailing list