Re: [Evolution] evolution 1.2.4 slow

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> re: message 12 from last digest...
> > Slow performance is what I observe with Evo 1.3.3.ximian, too. Not
> > deathly slow, but I really hope that is due to the devel release.
>
> > > It ain't been bad going for a day without email, but two days - well,
> > > it's impacting my biz at this point...
>
> > Well, use Evo 1.2.4 then...
>
> Don't bother with 1.2.4 to increase speed!
> I thought it was just me till I read the above.

You  know, Stephen and I were talking about _beta_ versions 1.3.x, do
you?

> I run stock Mandrake9.1
> and evolution 1.2.4 mdk and its so slow its painful. I have just
> replaced (not upgraded) Mandrake9.0 and evolution 1.0.8 which was
> acceptable. But now there is around 4 seconds delay when clicking on
> "forward" or "reply". 

I just waited about 1 sec for this window to come up (Evo 1.3.3) on a
Mandrake 9.1 system.

> While I type this I'm frequently ahead of the cursor, then the text
> "appears". Applications like Openoffice work perfectly so I can't see my
> P4 1.6gig, 512ram box being too slow or overtaxed. Not much else is
> running. Makes no difference whether i'm in Kde or Gnome.

My point is, Evo feels slower, redrawing the GUI takes time. I cannot
verify what you discover. PIII 800, 256 MB RAM on this machine.


> Autocomplete doesn't work like it did in 1.0.8.

Well known and discussed often, when 1.2 came out: Since Evo 1.2 the
autocompletion has changed to require at least 3 chars.


> I also tried replacing the "mdk" Evolution with ximian rpms etc, but its
> no better. Going back to 1.0.8 looks like a deal of trouble, i'll have
> to use old gtkhtml etc or maybe recompile it from src...dunno yet. But
> sorting through 100+ emails like this is misery.

Again, I cannot reproduce this...

...guenther


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