Re: [Evolution] slowness

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

How many is many?

How slow is extremely slow?

On 18 Jul 2001 19:15:50 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2001 22:14:09 -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 08:54:03PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > > I have many mail directories, some of them with more than 7000 messages
> > > each (mysql-users, linux kernel mailinglist, etc.). Each directory is in
> > > maildir format. For each directory there's at least one mail filter.
> > > In these conditions, Evolution is extremely slow
> >
> > Chances are you're keeping the files on an ext2 partition, which is well
> > known to have bad behavior with directories that have many files. The only
> > current solutions to this would be to keep the folders in mbox format,
>
> maildir is much more reliable, so i like to stick to it.
>
> > or to switch to a different fs with better behavior in these conditions.
> > (ext2 is getting this fixed, it's just not done yet.)
>
> I moved /home to ReiserFS, which is very fast when it comes to
> creating/deleting lots of small files.
>
> - when downloading messages (the progress bar advances) Evo is still
> very slow
> - when sorting messages (the progress bar reached the end, but the HDD
> is still doing something) Evo is still slow (it may take 30..50 seconds
> to sort the messages and put them in folders)
> - when entering/leaving a folder, or clicking on an unread message, Evo
> is clearly faster now
>
> > The other thing to look for is excessive swapping, in which case you
> > should try kernel 2.2.19.
>
> I was already on 2.2.19
>
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
>
>
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