Re: [Evolution] Evolution ghastly slow.

[MHR <mhullrich gmail com>]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:23 PM, MHR <mhullrich gmail com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:
> > It's important to say what *kind* of folder. Is it local or remote? If
> > local, is it an mbox and if so how big is it? Has it been expunged
> > (compacted) recently? It might also be relevant to know something about
> > the disk and filesystem the folder is on, e.g. a USB-conected external
> > disk versus a local SCSI disk, an ext3 filesystem versus a FUSE
> > filesystem such as NTFS-3g. If the folder is remote, what kind of server
> > is it? When you say sometimes it's quick but mostly it's slow, are you
> > talking about the same folder or different ones? Is there any
> > correlation with how long the Evo session has been running?
>
> O-K:
>
> All folders are local and in the default (mbox) format.
>
> I have Evo set to delete trashed messages on exit, but I haven't
> formally expunged them.
>
> The disk is a Seagate 300GB SATA internal drive with a 230GB ext3
> partition/file system for /home.
>
> The quick times seem to be different folders from the slow ones, but
> sometimes even the slow ones are pretty fast (usually not right away
> but after a few saves, though this is not an empirical measurement).
>
> This starts as soon as Evo comes up (usually shortly after a reboot,
> which is rare), and I rarely close or restart Evo unless I'm
> rebooting.
>
> Does that help?  Let me know if you need more info.

I just timed a small email message save to a local sub-subfolder of my
main local folder: 16-17 seconds.  This is a small email message being
saved to a 62MB folder.

I noticed that I seem to have a number of ev-summary-met files for
folders that no longer exist - could this be related?

mhr