Re: [Evolution] Evo suddenly VERY slow

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On 24 Apr 2001 07:48:24 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le 2001.04.24 04:00:42 +0200, Rupert Heesom a écrit :
> > My copy of Evo has recently become VERY slow.....everything from loading
> > it to opening up a new composition window; everything is slower.
> >
> > I seem to remember some others with this problem on this list a while
> > ago.  If I remember correctly, the solution was to convert each folder
> > to type MAILDIR rather than type MBOX.   Is this correct?
> >
> > While I am willing convert mail formats if necessary, this doesn't make
> > sense to me......  surely if that were the problem, then clearing out a
> > lot of the mail in the folders should improve the speed?  I've cleared
> > out a lot of mail myself, but this hasn't helped at all.
>
> I had this problem too, and it appeared I had to killev, killall oafd (as
> root) and rm -Rf /tmp/orbit-*, then Evo started to be snappier (well, as
> snappy as it can, which is really slow compared as e.g. Balsa. But Balsa is
> a lot simpler)

This actually might be because of an oafd problem when it persists
across X sessions.  This is fixed in cvs oaf (oaf-slay fixes the problem
because it kills the oafd that spanned the sessions).

-JP
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