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
