Re: [Evolution] Very bad performance issues on startup after upgrade 2.22->2.24 (opensuse 11.0->11.1)

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:38 +0100, Olivier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Evolution is my standard mua since... I don't remember when, and I've
> been happy with it most of the time. But since latest OS update, it's
> performance (especially on startup) went very bad. I'm not sure if it's
> an opensuse or an evolution issue, but since everything else is working
> fine after the OS upgrade, I guess it's evolution-related.
>
> Before:   opensuse 11.0, evolution 2.22 : everything perfect & quick
> After: opensuse 11.1, evolution 2.24: after startup, I need to wait
> about 5-10 minutes (!) to be able to access to my mailboxes and until
> the active tasks (in the status bar) disappear: about 7-10 "Checking for
> new mail", a few "Ping server..." and "Opening folder...".
>
> There were no change to the setup nor to the mail server.  I have about
> 10 IMAP mailboxes on different servers (quite big, but everything was
> fine before, so...),    no local antispam filtering, no
> beagle-indexing... 
>
> Any idea what I should/could try to solve that problem?  Now to be able
> to work I need to start thunderbird until evolution is ready.... it's
> not ideal :-) 
>
> regards & thanks in advance for any hint, Olivier

Have you tried vacuuming the database as described Srini on this list
yesterday (in the "all i want..." thread).

P.