Re: [Evolution] About performance

[Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado <gaguilar aguilardelgado com>]

El lun, 11-03-2013 a las 20:57 +0100, Andre Klapper escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 20:20 +0100, Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado wrote:
> > I'm experiencing a lot of performance issues with latests evolution.
> > Evo version is 3.6.2.
>
> 3.6.2 is not latest Evolution. You might want to ask your distribution
> to ship the latest bugfix version for you.

This is ubuntu 12.10 there's nothing newer. At least not like a Beta.

> > I think that since introduction of sql backend. 
>  
> Assuming that you meant the "sqlite backend", you have a pretty good
> memory as you can remember that 5 years ago, Evolution was way more
> performant than the last 4 1/2 years.
> I just don't understand why you bring it up now and not earlier?

Yessss, I have memory when it relates to my day to day. I'm suffering this since then.

I wanted to bring it up earlier but wanted to be sure... After 4 years, I'm sure. That was a mistake.

> > I think that developers must put an exclamation mark on this issue
> > since will made evo lost every client.
>
> If a relevant number of users is affected and if the problem has
> actually something to do with Evolution, that is correct.
>
> I wonder how to start debugging here. Maybe strace to see what your
> computer is doing? Have you checked forums and bugtrackers of your
> distribution if other users face the same problem?

I've checked some lists, googling, etc and found some really angry users about evo performance. But I don't 
rely on just one opinion and continued looking for help. There's nothing more I can find, so I went to this list. 

I thought that an SSD disk would help but it does not. And I don't want to do old way of solving problems: "If your
program is slow, buy a new computer". That's not the way. 

Evolution used to work really well. But performance degraded over time. I think that maybe someone was already
looking at this problem. So I wanted to share. 

The obvious solution is to switch to Thunderbird that works well. But I want Evolution go better...


> andre