Bug#807062: Excessive memory usage with large contacts database
Josh Triplett
josh at joshtriplett.org
Fri Dec 4 19:31:42 UTC 2015
Package: gnome-contacts
Version: 3.18.1-1
Severity: important
I have evolution hooked up to a large contacts database (corporate
address book). Recently, gnome-contacts (running in the background of
the GNOME session, without anything requesting contacts) started using
an excessive amount of memory: 7GB+ before it got killed by the OOM
killer, and just before doing so it very nearly froze my X session.
No matter how big the contacts database is, gnome-contacts should not
use that much memory; map the contacts from disk if necessary, but don't
copy them into memory.
Furthermore, it doesn't seem at all obvious to me why gnome-contacts
needs to run at all in the background of my session, as I have not run
anything that would need access to contacts.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnome-contacts depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.24.0-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1
ii libc6 2.21-1
ii libcairo2 1.14.4-1
ii libchamplain-0.12-0 0.12.11-1
ii libcheese-gtk25 3.18.1-2
ii libcheese8 3.18.1-2
ii libclutter-1.0-0 1.24.2-1
ii libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 1.6.6-1
ii libedataserver-1.2-21 3.18.2-1
ii libedataserverui-1.2-1 3.18.2-1
ii libfolks-eds25 0.11.1-2+b1
ii libfolks-telepathy25 0.11.1-2+b1
ii libfolks25 0.11.1-2+b1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.2-1
ii libgee-0.8-2 0.18.0-1
ii libgeocode-glib0 3.18.0-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-1
ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.18.2-1
ii libgoa-1.0-0b 3.18.2.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.18.5-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libtelepathy-glib0 0.24.1-1.1
gnome-contacts recommends no packages.
gnome-contacts suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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