Re: [Evolution] Global Address List unusable slowness in Evo 2.10.1 (and 2.8 as well)



Hi Ari,

From Evolution 2.10.x, we have added support for GAL caching.  All you
have to do is to choose it for offline use by right clicking on the GAL
addressbook.

Also, the refresh interval can be controlled using the gconf key
- /apps/evolution/addressbook/gal_cache_interval which would be set to 7
days by default.

HTH,

V. Varadhan

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 08:01 -0700, Ari El wrote:
Hi,

   I've recently upgraded my office laptop to Feisty, and I am quite happy
with the increased Evo stability.

   However I have an issue with the GAL. This happened in Edgy (Evo 2.8)
too. Automatic GAL and exchange Contact list lookups work but are painfully
slow. 

Example: In Preferences > Autocompletion, I just select the GAL; and also in
my account properties, I limited GAL responses to just 10 elements (I tried
with 100, 500 and 5000, this makes no difference)

    When composing a new email, after typing the first 5 characters of a
name, I get a 7 seconds (!!) delay in which the composing window becomes
totally unresponsive, until I get the list of matches. Every new character I
add or delete, I get a new delay, which renders the whole thing completely
unusable.

   In fact, if instead of the GAL, I only select to use my Exchange contact
folder (which has 1000 entries) for autocompletion, I get the same lame
performance. 

    In the "Contacts" View, I tried right-clicking in both the "Global
Address List" and my exchange Contacts, and selecting "Copy Book Content
Locally for offline operation", but this unfortunately does not improve
performance at all.

   The only way to make evo useful, in my case, is to autocomplete from a
local copy of my address list. Which is not useful for me, as I need to
constantly use the GAL (my company has some 20K employees).

   Can evolution be made to maintain a cache of the whole GAL and also to
cache my exchange Contacts, and use the cache all the time (not only in
offline mode)?   I think this is what Outlook does. In any case, any
workaround will help!

Thanks!!





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Veerapuram Varadhan <vvaradhan novell com>




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