Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.4 performance on KDE 3.1

[Paul Hands <phands cadence com>]

Jeff, answers embedded...........


On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 17:00, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Does the RENDER X extension work properly on your system?
It looks OK.  The XFree86 log file shows that RENDER is loading OK, and there are no errors regarding the extension.
> (do you get errors like "Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display
> :0.0" ?)
>
> all I know is that my laptop (p3 600 w/ 128 megs of RAM running RedHat 9
> w/ XD2 running default setup) sounds like it runs evolution faster than
> your 2 gigahertz + 2gig of ram desktop machine, which seems a bit
> strange... no? I'll grant you that w/ 128 megs of ram and a 256 meg swap
> partition, things are not exactly snappy - but redraws and plenty fast.
It is infuriatingly slow, especially for a high spec machine.  The reason I am back with the SuSE version is that I had installed XD2 when this all started, and I mistakenly thought going back might fix it.  That's also why I suspect that my gnome configuration is broken somewhere.  I tried a doorman-reset and also moving all my .gnome  and .gconf stuff temporarily, but no luck.
> the browser config setting thing has more to do with what arguments you
> pass to the browser command-line than a bug in GNOME. If I try to launch
> mozilla more than once on my machine from the command-line, it often
> won't let me - asking me to select a different profile.
That's the net effect.
> you probably need to do something like: mozilla --new-window
I use mozilla -remote "openurl($arg, new-window)" with some surroundings to catch the cases where there either is or isn't a browser already running.
> (you'd have to read up on the mozilla command-line options to know for
> sure, I was just making that one up).
>
> what other preferences "get ignored"? They all seem to work fine for
> me...
Setting file handlers just doesn't seem to work.  I set the preference for html docs to various things, including just launching a shell.  No change is effective, the system just doesn't "see" them.
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:32, Paul Hands wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > 
> > You may well be right regarding configuration, but what in
> > particular?  I suspect that something is wrong with my gnome
> > configuration in general, because I cannot get evolution to open a web
> > browser if one is already running - all my settings in
> > gnome-control-center seem to get ignored.  I "fixed" it by changing
> > the mozilla script in the mozilla installation.
> > 
> > So far, as you say, all responses seem to be from SuSE 8.2 users. 
> > However, 1.2.2 is OK on the same setup.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:07, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: 
> > > sounds like your system is incorrectly configured. This is certainly
> > > *not* an evolution bug if it is only reproducable on SuSE 8.2 (which
> > > seems to be the case based on other responses in this thread).
> > > 
> > > Make sure that hardware acceleration is working properly
> > > 
> > > Jeff
> > > 
> > > 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