Re: [Evolution] evolution 1.2.4 slow

[richard <rcoates bigpond net au>]

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 08:47, guenther wrote:
> > Guenther thankyou for your reply,
>
> Your welcome --anytime if I can help.
>
> btw: Was this mail intended to be sent private or just by accident?
accident
> > > Sorry, but I can at least report good performance for 2 other Mandrake
> > > 9.1 machines... ;-)
> > So its a fault with my pc/config then...?
>
> Really don't know, but it seems like.
>
>
> > > Don't know, what could cause such a massive lag.
> > yes its extremely frustrating. Evo 1.0.8 on Mdk 9.0 worked fine with
> > default settings. Its like a dns error on bootup...evolution just stops
> > every 30seconds or so and doesn't respond to input for 3 or 4 seconds.
> > It affects all evolution tasks; typing text on screen(cursor
> > disappears), open/close, reply, forward, send emails.
> > I have 8 other inbox subfolders with approx 250 stored emails, 12 custom
> > rules, 3 pop accounts. Shouldn't be too much.
> > I just looked through settings...mail set to check every 10 mins, so not
> > that. I can't think what else on Mandrake could interfere?
> > thankyou for your time,
>
> As you are using 1.2.4-mdk, did you have the same lag with 1.2.2 that
> came with Mandrake 9.1? Have you installed the Gnome desktop or just
> Evolution?
just replaced 1.2.4-mdk with original evolution-1.2.2-3mdk and performance is the same.
I remember that was originally why I upgraded.
> If you _really_ wanna downgrade, try the RPMs from ML9.1 first. I'm not
> sure which Gnome version that had (2.0 IIRC), but that should fit the
> best.
>
> Remove Evolution 1.2.4 first -- and be sure to move your ~/evolution
> folder to a save place (paranoia saves your day and email), as some
> config has changes between 1.0.x and 1.2.x.
>
> Just in case, I know Evo runs fine on ML9.1... ;-)
>
> ...guenther
thanks for your help but looks like I got "dependency hell"!
progs installed are > whats required but to go back to 1.0.8 means
mixing different lib versions...asking for trouble. I have to find
another distro that I can live with or use another mail client. Maybe
before I get too drastic i'll do a fresh install on another box at work
and try that first.
Richard.