Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.12.2 slow startup

[MHR <mhullrich gmail com>]

[Sorry - I forgot to reply-to-all....]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Juergen Dankoweit
<Juergen Dankoweit t-online de> wrote:
> HHello,
>
> thanks for your answer.
>
> Am Freitag, den 31.10.2008, 09:57 -0700 schrieb MHR:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Juergen Dankoweit
> > <Juergen Dankoweit t-online de> wrote:
> > > Thanks for yur answer.
> > >
> > > My environment:
> > > FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0
> > > Gnome 2.20
> > > CPU-Speed 1,8GHz (Thinkpad T43)
> > > RAM 1024MB
> > >
> > > If I quit Evolution and restart it immediately the startup time is the same (about one minute).
> >
> > What kind of disks are you running?  It might be related to your bus
> > speed and seek times.
>
> In the Thinkpad T43 I have a Fujitsu 40GB PATA harddisk with 5400 rpm on
> DMA100 and 8MB cache. All other programs do not show this. OpenOffice
> needs only 10 seconds (!!!) for startup without quickstarter.
>
> > Do you have any way to profile evo, like strace, to see what it's doing?
>
> I will use truss (strace is unknown in FreeBSD). Should I send you the
> output?
>
> I'm not alone with that problem. Look here, it is in german language:
> http://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php?p=190265#post190265

I am not familiar with FreeBSD - that's one brand of Unix I've never
used.  I was thinking (hoping?) that someone here other than myself
might be able to make sense of it, or perhaps even you.

I took a look at the German report, but my German is way too limited
to make much out of it other than the 1 minute to start part.

Is it possible that your file system is extremely fragmented and could
that be a part of it?

I only use Evo at home on my primary desktop box and here at work,
both on CentOS (5.2 at the moment) and I've never seen this problem.
I would expect a slower startup on a portable, but a minute does seem
kind of extreme, esp. if OOo starts that fast (mine takes about that,
maybe a little less).

Good luck!  Sorry I couldn't be more help.

mhr