Hi Alex,

Alexander Schestag wrote:

> I don't know whether Evolution or Iceweasel have bugs that might produce
> this behaviour. But I know that there is a bug in Icedove that can cause
> such a behaviour. Do you use Icedove together with Iceweasel when the

The bug seems to be in the new file selection box of icedove.  It reads
the complete directory index each time it loads and saves (!) files.  If
there are a lot of files in the index, it needs a lot of time and memory
-- the more often I exported mails or attachments, the more memory
icedove-bin needed, according to top.

It seems that the memory icedove takes for this operations is not given
back to the system after the operation.  I have already reported the
problem to the package maintainer and will update this today.

Iceweasel doesn't seem to be slowlier here (PIII/500, 256 MB, etch).
Quite the converse: The cache seems to be organised in a better way, and
to go back one page with the back button is much faster.

But this is etch; the OP asked for iceweasel (and evolution) on sarge.

Greets, Sabine
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