Re: [Evolution] Global Address List unusable slowness in Evo 2.10.1 (and 2.8 as well)

["Rev. Dr. Aaron M. Segura" <aaron segura cabelas com>]

Have you done a tcpdump during this to see where the delay is?  I would
think the server might be taking a long time to return results.

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 08:01 -0700, Ari El wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I've recently upgraded my office laptop to Feisty, and I am quite happy
> with the increased Evo stability.
>
>    However I have an issue with the GAL. This happened in Edgy (Evo 2.8)
> too. Automatic GAL and exchange Contact list lookups work but are painfully
> slow. 
>
> Example: In Preferences > Autocompletion, I just select the GAL; and also in
> my account properties, I limited GAL responses to just 10 elements (I tried
> with 100, 500 and 5000, this makes no difference)
>
>     When composing a new email, after typing the first 5 characters of a
> name, I get a 7 seconds (!!) delay in which the composing window becomes
> totally unresponsive, until I get the list of matches. Every new character I
> add or delete, I get a new delay, which renders the whole thing completely
> unusable.
>
>    In fact, if instead of the GAL, I only select to use my Exchange contact
> folder (which has 1000 entries) for autocompletion, I get the same lame
> performance. 
>
>     In the "Contacts" View, I tried right-clicking in both the "Global
> Address List" and my exchange Contacts, and selecting "Copy Book Content
> Locally for offline operation", but this unfortunately does not improve
> performance at all.
>
>    The only way to make evo useful, in my case, is to autocomplete from a
> local copy of my address list. Which is not useful for me, as I need to
> constantly use the GAL (my company has some 20K employees).
>
>    Can evolution be made to maintain a cache of the whole GAL and also to
> cache my exchange Contacts, and use the cache all the time (not only in
> offline mode)?   I think this is what Outlook does. In any case, any
> workaround will help!
>
> Thanks!!