I found the correct Setting manager (the other one was for Unity8?) and have tried to reproduce the behavior described by Jonathan. Disabling the "Evolution Data Server" entry for my calendar does not fix the problem. All 8G of memory and 8G of swap gets devoured in under 10 seconds.
I think that marking this a duplicate of bug #1342123 is a mistake for two reasons:
1. bug #1342123 is a bug for mobile system (the corresponding bug for the desktop is bug #1589605)
2. they are talking about rather modest amounts of memory usage like 100MB, not 16G.
I found the correct Setting manager (the other one was for Unity8?) and have tried to reproduce the behavior described by Jonathan. Disabling the "Evolution Data Server" entry for my calendar does not fix the problem. All 8G of memory and 8G of swap gets devoured in under 10 seconds.
I think that marking this a duplicate of bug #1342123 is a mistake for two reasons:
1. bug #1342123 is a bug for mobile system (the corresponding bug for the desktop is bug #1589605)
2. they are talking about rather modest amounts of memory usage like 100MB, not 16G.