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

["Veerapuram Varadhan" <vvaradhan novell com>]

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!!
-- 
Veerapuram Varadhan <vvaradhan novell com>