Re: [Evolution] Slow and where's documentation

["John Weber" <jweber math cudenver edu>]

Mike Leone wrote:
> > I'm also curious as to why evolution takes a long time to start up.
> > About 10 secs for each component to highlight in the startup window, and
> > after that the different components take a similar amount of time to
> > open on first use. The New Messages window always takes a long time to
> > open. I never see any disk or CPU usage during the wait, so what is it
> > doing?
>
> ORBIT problems, probably. I notice that, when Evolution gets that slow, if I
> do (as root):
>
> (close Evo)
> killev
> oaf-slay
> rm -rf /tmp/orbit-(my-user-name)
>
> Then Evo speeds up TREMENDOUSLY. Both start up, and widow openings - new
> message, reply, etc.
> I know that if I *don't* periodically do this, Evo gets very slow.
> Especially if I leave X, and then come back into X.
Thanks,
This worked to speed things up again. I've crashed evolution several times 
since, but no slow down yet.