Re: [Evolution] Need help re slowness

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 11:39, David McNab wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Evolution 1.0.8 on Debian sid, over KDE 3.0 (sometimes) and Gnome2 (other times).
>
> Evolution is an amazingly good email and groupware client in almost every respect except one - speed.
>
> For one thing, evolution takes about 10 seconds to start up (on a 1.5GHz Athlon XP).
>
> Also, it takes forever to read in emails, even when reading from local spool file (not POP3). Specifically, 
> it takes up to 1 second to read in each message and sort it to the folders.

This u need to upgrade to fix.

> On sending (via SMTP on localhost), it takes up to 10 secs to get a short text-only message out.
>
> On the whole, Evolution is my email prog of choice. But the painful performance has for now forced me onto 
> Sylpheed (which works super-fast in the same environment). But I find Sylpheed to be a bit flaky - for 
> example, outbound mails fail to actually send, and no indication is given of this.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make Evolution run faster?
>
> (To be fair, I have to say that I've got about 45 physical folders, each with between 10 and 4000 messages).
>
> All help will be gratefully appreciated.

I think any of your startup (&startup of things like the editor)
problems are oaf related.  Try logging out, then running oaf-slay and rm
-rf /tmp/orbit-* and restarting.

I'm using an athlon 1.2 and although i dont have lots of folders, which
will impact startup time, it certainly runs faster than that.