Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.4 performance on KDE 3.1

[Ralph Sanford <rsanford telusplanet net>]

As a counter to the many who have reported a performance problem with
Evolution 1.4.4 on SuSE 8.2, the performance here is better with 1.4.x
than the 1.2 versions.  I have used Evolution on SuSE 8.2 with all the
iterations of KDE and several of the Kernel upgrades.  The performance
is quite good on a computer that is not as powerful as some others are
using and reporting performance problems.  A window refresh is less than
1/2 second.

A difference may be that I am using the Evolution 1.4.4 build from
usr-local-bin.org.  There are some significant differences between the
dependencies of Evolution as prepared by Mr. Ogley at usr-local-bin and
the Evolution from Ximian.

Ralph


On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:07, 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
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