Re: [Evolution] Contacts runs like treacle

[Tom <tomh simas com>]

Works perfectly fine here - Redhat 8.0, Evolution 1.0.8, Dell Latitude
laptop, 512M RAM.

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 06:02, Panos Tsapralis (TELLAS) wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:33, Matthew Whimp wrote:
> > I've just managed to convert my contacts over from kaddressbook.
> > However, I am shocked at how resource hungry, and slooooow the
> > contacts part of evolution is.  Is this normal behaviour.  In total, I
> > have about 160 vCard entries in the contacts section.  And everything
> > I do from scrolling through the contacts, to selecting a particular
> > letter, makes evolution drag.  Basically all my memory (256MB) is all
> > used up, and it's swapping like mad.  My mouse cursor jumps about, its
> > just horrible.
> Same thing here, Matthew, since a long time ago (version 1.0), although
> not as heavy as you describe.
>
> The contacts selection dialog box (the one that appears when I click on
> the "To:", "Cc:" or "Bcc:" buttons of a new message) behaves normally,
> however, whenever I select a contact and click on any of the three
> buttons, it takes up to one minute to add the name of that contact to
> the relevant list.
>
> This is really annoying and I wish it could be resolved...