Re: [Evolution] evolution 1.2.4 slow

[richard <rcoates bigpond net au>]

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 01:10, guenther wrote:

> You  know, Stephen and I were talking about _beta_ versions 1.3.x, do
> you?
The previous comment says "Well, use Evo 1.2.4 then.."
> > 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.

just found out...if I click reply on any email and leave it sit there...
all other "replies" happen within a second as they should.

> > 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

just type up a letter in Openoffice while 5 browsers, evolution, other
progs are running. My box has plenty of guts but even with ONLY
evolution running...evolution runs like a slow old dog.

> > 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.

autocomplete doesen't work at all here.

> > 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...

If Evolution 1.2.4 is working ok for you..
Does anyone else running Mandrake9.1 have problems with slowness or is
it my problem alone??

> ...guenther