Re: [Evolution] Slow response

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 09:02 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:44 +0100, Peter Saffrey wrote:
> > Just timed opening a new message at over 2 minutes. The folder had
> > been opened before. It's quite a big folder - 1600 messages - but the
> > message itself is only 6k.
>
> Hm.  I don't have folders that big but others have posted here with much
> larger folders without any issues.
>
> Is the message plain text, or does it have lots of HTML formatting?  I
> have a bug filed where some messages I receive, particularly from
> Amazon, take well over a minute or two to open.  My CPU is very busy
> during this as well.  These messages are NOT large; they are maybe 1100
> lines long, and 30k or so.  Plenty of other messages, a lot bigger,
> don't have this problem.

I get this too occasionally (not specifically from Amazon but from
random other places). Annoyingly, much of the time the message turns out
to be spam.

> There's something about the HTML in this particular message that gives
> either evolution or the gtkhtml lib or something fits.
>
> > Also timed moving a small mail between two previously opened folders
> > at about 30 seconds. It sounds like I'm still not getting the
> > performance I should.
>
> I agree, that seems slow to me, although moving messages does sometimes
> seem a bit pokey to me as well.
>
> > Will your new Makefile be sufficiently compatible with the old one
> > that I can drop it in and run an update cleanly?
>
> Yes, definitely.  I doubt it will make much difference, though you can
> try it.  It would be interesting to know what Evo is doing during this
> time, but I don't have any idea how you can find that out.

It's also relevant to know what's the server, and how loaded it is. For
example, does a different client (e.g. Thunderbird) go any faster on
these folder operations?

poc