I used tcsh's limit command to limit memoryuse to 128M and vmemoryuse to 256M, started evolution, composed an email and attached the jpeg. Cpu usage immediately went to 99.9%, but I was able to do a 'kill -ABRT' and get a core dump. The process was in /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 when it died. On a hunch, I used 'System->Preferences->Appearance' to change the theme from 'LegacyHuman' to 'Human' and tried again. This time evolution behaves itself, although the progress bar animation that appears as the attachment is read is awfully jerky (but I can live with that). Could this be a gtk bug? The core file is 181 megabytes, so I'm just attaching a typesrcipt file showing the gdb which command.
** Attachment added: "evolution-core.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33370392/evolution-core.txt -- [karmic] attaching certain file causes evolution to choke taking more than 600MB of memory, while composing an e-mail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393534 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
