GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 325231
Evolution won't properly handle large emails
Last modified: 2006-02-24 09:35:22 UTC
Please describe the problem: Evolution runs horribly when a large email is in the inbox (15+MB) and the preview panel is turned on. Evolution will take all CPU and more than 500MB of ram and is reproducable. Evolution never ends up crashing, but since it hangs the entire desktop, I need to force-quit it. Thunderbird seems to handle these messages just fine. In fact, I need to open thunderbird up to delete this message if I've accidently clicked on it in evolution. Steps to reproduce: 1. Send yourself a 15-20MB email (not an attachment, but text in an email) 2. Make sure your preview panel is turned on 3. Click on your newly recieved message in your evolution inbox. Actual results: Your desktop applications will grow unresponsive and evolution won't close. Most of your RAM will be consumed by evolution and you won't be able to kill it without force-quitting. Expected results: The email would load in the preview panel, albeit slow (Because it's 20MB). Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: danv@folgers:~$ uname -a Linux folgers 2.6.13 #2 SMP Thu Sep 1 09:16:36 CDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux danv@folgers:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" \n \l danv@folgers:~$ evolution --version Gnome evolution-2.4 2.4.1
adding perf keyword
Gtkhtml. Sigh! Gecko calls.
Confirming..
confirmed on gtkhtml 3.8.2 with evolution 2.4.2.1 on Arch Linux.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 310855 ***