Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.4 performance on KDE 3.1

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

Can someone who's seeing this bug try running evolution under gdb and
resizing the window, and then hit ^C in gdb while it's redrawing, type
"thread apply all bt", and mail the output here? That might give us some
idea of where it's getting tied up.

Ideally, this would be with a snapshot build, since they have debugging
symbols.

-- Dan

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:27, Paul Hands wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Should I submit the following as a bug?
>
> I'm running evolution 1.4.4 (and also the latest snaps - no
> difference) on KDE 3.1 (various versions - 3.1.1, 3.1.3) on SuSE 8.2. 
> System is a 2Ghz IBM T30 laptop with 2G RAM, Radeon mobility graphics
> adaptor, XFree86-4.3.0-15.
>
> The graphics performance is awful.  
>
> Anything which causes a window redraw (without changing window sizes)
> takes around 8 seconds to complete.  That includes changing folders -
> something which happens a lot.  The redraw of the summary and preview
> panes takes the most time - the folder bar needs about 3 seconds to
> look complete.  
>
> If I resize the window (main or composer)  the redraw can take up to
> 30 seconds.  During that time, the mouse cursor is grabbed, and is
> restricted to a screen area which seems to be the old size of the
> window.
>
> If I switch into a gnome session (gnome 2.2 as supplied with the SuSE
> distro) instead of KDE, graphics performance is fine.
>
> I don't want to start a gnome versus KDE thread here - it serves no
> purpose.  However, I bet a lot of evolution users are on KDE as well,
> and therefore I'd like to know..............
>
> 1. Is it just me, or are other KDE users seeing this.  If so, what
> distro etc?
> 2. Is it restricted to Evolution, or are other gnome apps affected in
> the same way?  
>
> and of course,
>
> 3. Is it worth submitting a bug?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul