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Title:
Empathy is an insane memory hog
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Using empathy makes my system practically unusable. It is the tree-
trunk that breaks the camel's back. I do have several accounts
configured, but most are disabled. The only ones enabled are one
jabber account and one google talk account. Disabled are facebook,
aol, yahoo, bonjour/zeroconf/rendezvous, and a couple more jabber
accounts. Empathy takes an age to start up (and the window is greyed
while it does so), individual chats take an age or fail completely to
start, and looking at top output, it's pretty clear why:
top - 14:38:26 up 5 days, 1:30, 11 users, load average: 1.23, 1.33, 1.36
Tasks: 265 total, 1 running, 261 sleeping, 0 stopped, 3 zombie
Cpu(s): 14.9%us, 6.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 78.1%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4030516k total, 3775940k used, 254576k free, 62624k buffers
Swap: 1952764k total, 1218700k used, 734064k free, 500484k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30634 nwp 20 0 1939m 705m 23m S 0 17.9 0:56.23 empathy
16872 nwp 20 0 2018m 271m 30m S 0 6.9 2:28.71 evolution
23101 nwp 20 0 3167m 237m 18m S 9 6.0 15:58.82 empathy-chat
For a relatively minor component of a running desktop system, that
kind of memory usage is completely inappropriate. It's not even as if
it (empathy) has been running for a long time, as I regularly have to
kill it to be able to use some other part of the system. I have no
idea why it takes so much, but please please please make it stop! -
I've been evangelising empathy for years now, and I'd hate to have to
eat humble pie and go back to pidgin ;-)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: empathy 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 30 14:39:02 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-30 (29 days ago)
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