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

["Rev. Dr. Aaron M. Segura" <aaron segura cabelas com>]

http://www.tcpdump.org/
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch04_:_Simple_Network_Troubleshooting#Viewing_Packet_Flows_with_tcpdump
http://dmiessler.com/study/tcpdump_recipes/

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 08:29 -0700, Ari El wrote:
> Aaron Segura-2 wrote:
> > Have you done a tcpdump during this to see where the delay is?  I would
> > think the server might be taking a long time to return results.
> >
> > 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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>
> How do I use tcpdump? 
>
> Also: Outlook inside VMware in the same computer does not seem to have the
> slowness problem at all.
>
> Thanks!