Re: [Evolution] IMAP speed

[Mark Lowes <hamster korenwolf net>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 22:23, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:45, Scott Otterson wrote:
> > Jeff, those are great numbers but I suspect the test isn't measuring the
> > thing I'm talking about.  What I'm talking about is amount of time
> > evolution spends rechecking message headers and updating vfolders.  For
> > example, I just did this:
> ah, so now it's vFolders...

vfolders aren't an issue here, I normally run with two IMAP backends
(home and work email), one backend is on the localhost, the other on a
machine just across the room on the same network.

[...]
> > Can you think of a way to test this aspect?  Do you think that the
> > checking and rechecking is because of evolutions's interaction with UW
> > IMAP v.s. other kinds of IMAP?  If so, the problem is solvable because
> > the mozilla IMAP doesn't spend this much time checking and rechecking.
>
> what I don't understand is why you are comparing Evolution's
> vFolder-over-IMAP speed to Mozilla's plain IMAP speed. Of course
> Mozilla's plain IMAP is gonna be faster.

I'll do some mozilla vs evo-1.2.0 later today and post the results.

[...]
> fast stuff loaded in 1.0.8 compared to 1.2.0? As far as I know, this
> should all be faster... but it'd be good to get times to compare.

If you can point me to a 1.0.8 deb I can grab I'll try comparing both
against the setup here and bug it.

   Mark

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