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New Evolution patch reduces memory by 40-60MB

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Philip Van Hoof wrote: "Here are the patches to get the upstream version of evolution-data-server and evolution-exchange to start using the mmap technique for loading the header and content info summary data of Evolution and tinymail.

I expect it to reduce memory usage of Evolution with approximately fourty to sixty megabytes of ram, depending on the amount of folders you have."

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Yes, with IMAP a lot of the

Yes, with IMAP a lot of the mail is stored on the server. Not a lot of the memory that Evolution uses, is.