[ale] Evolution is a hog

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 11:53 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Are you using maildir format instead of mbox?

I wasn't aware that was a configurable option with Evolution.  In my
case it opens the index files for the files it maintains for my folders
several times over.

Currently (and Evolution has only been running for about 90 minutes
now):

evolution  2450        mbt   25u      REG                8,7   488448
1486224 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ibex.index
evolution  2450        mbt   26u      REG                8,7   969296
1490292 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ibex.index.data
evolution  2450        mbt   27u      REG                8,7    12288
1478317 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Drafts.ibex.index
evolution  2450        mbt   28u      REG                8,7     3020
1478318 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Drafts.ibex.index.data
evolution  2450        mbt   29u      REG                8,7        0
4099364 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm101.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   30u      REG                8,7        0
4195134 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm103.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   31u      REG                8,7   173056
1485598 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Sent.ibex.index
evolution  2450        mbt   32u      REG                8,7   208256
1490156 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Sent.ibex.index.data
evolution  2450        mbt   37u      REG                8,7        0
1478230 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/imap/fd0man at mymail.wintu.edu/journal
evolution  2450        mbt   46u      REG                8,7        0
4195134 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm103.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   47u      REG                8,7        0
4099364 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm101.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   48u      REG                8,7        0
4099364 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm101.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   49u      REG                8,7        0
4195134 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm103.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   50u      REG                8,7        0
4195134 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm103.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   51u      REG                8,7        0
4099364 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm101.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   52u      REG                8,7     7168
1486715 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Outbox.ibex.index
evolution  2450        mbt   53u      REG                8,7        0
4195134 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm103.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   54u      REG                8,7        0
1490256 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Outbox.ibex.index.data
evolution  2450        mbt   55u      REG                8,7        0
4099364 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm101.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   56u      REG                8,7   297984
1485611 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/ALE.ibex.index
evolution  2450        mbt   58u      REG                8,7        0
4195134 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm103.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   59u      REG                8,7    17408
7553074 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/AllStaff
Mail.sbd/Nagios Notifications.ibex.index
evolution  2450        mbt   60u      REG                8,7    32472
7553079 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/AllStaff
Mail.sbd/Nagios Notifications.ibex.index.data
evolution  2450        mbt   61u      REG                8,7     3851
1490246 /home/mbt/.evolution/.evolution-composer.autosave-4FO22T
evolution  2450        mbt   62u      REG                8,7        0
4099364 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm101.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   64u      REG                8,7        0
4099364 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm101.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   65u      REG                8,7        0
4195134 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm103.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   66u      REG                8,7   798004
1490253 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/ALE.ibex.index.data
evolution  2450        mbt   67u      REG                8,7        0
4099364 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm101.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2450        mbt   68u      REG                8,7        0
4195134 /home/mbt/.evolution/mail/nntp/fd0man at afm103.wintu.edu/.ev-journal
evolution  2453        mbt   22u      REG                8,7    24576
1478197 /home/mbt/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db
evolution  2453        mbt   23r      REG                8,7     6622
1490189 /home/mbt/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db.summary
mbt at garlic:~/projects/companies/allstaff-technical/server-docs$ 

Most of the dups at the present moment involve files for my school's
NNTP spool (odd, since I have yet to get into that since I opened
Evolution).  Eventually, if left open for long enough, dupes will be
found for every one of my mail folders.  They are all downloaded via
POP3 and stored in whatever the default format Evolution works with is;
I believe that is mbox.

	--- Mike

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