Re: [Evolution] IMAP Issues ...

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 01:12, Ryan P Skadberg wrote:
> Oops, I think I mis-spoke here :)
>
> I meant that it took 2-3 hours to load of the folder LIST on the left
> hand side.  During this evolution was totally un-usable.  I have been
> doing some testing on this all morning and it does NOT seem like it is
> an evolution-mail issue (as it has the list done in less than min), but
> it seems as if it is an issue with maybe gal or e-table or something.
>
> If I run evolution-mail with verbose debugging, I see the folder list
> all come up and then the main evolution process eats about 90% of my CPU
> for a long long time.  I've been trying some different things to see
> what is going on.  When I straced evolution, it was doing a lot of
> writes, but it was stuff that was un-readable by me.

Ouch.

Sounds like a recent change made to the shell.  I knew it was slower,
much slower,  but didn't think it could stretch out to 2-3 hours. 
Particulalry since it was already extremely slow :-/

> Something like this:

The strace is probably X traffic or something.

> Is there any way that I could debug this better on my own?  Maybe a Gal
> debug or something?

Probably not much.

> I also know that I was doing some experiments with things I did last
> week like unsubbing all my folders and re-subbing them, which took maybe
> 5-10 minutes in the past now has the same problem and takes a long
> time.  It seems that whatever change caused this happened in the last
> week or so.  Probably about 2 or 3 snapshots ago.
>
> Skadz
>
> Once this problem is all done, folders load as quick as they always
> have, so that was definitely not the issue, sorry if I caused some
> confusion.

Ahh cool.  Well, with a *lot* of messages, it could take a long time to
startup, we were worried that might be the problem.