Re: [Evolution] Evolution painfully slow

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 07:49 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El dÃa Friday, July 24, 2009 a las 01:15:00PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan escribiÃ:
>
> > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:10 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > Evolution (evolution-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64 running under Fedora-11) is
> > > painfully slow performing some actions.  In particular, I've been
> > > clearing out the the 1579 deleted messages in my Junk folder for the
> > > past hour.  The status (bottom) line has been displaying:
> > >   Updating Search Folders for 'On This Computer:/phred' (...)
> > > during this whole time.  All data is local to my computer; no external
> > > servers, databases, etc.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen this or a similar problem?  Any ideas what's going
> > > on?
> >
> > Have you tried vacuuming the database?
> >
> >         #!/bin/sh
> >         
> >         cd ~/.evolution/mail/
> >         for i in `find . -name folders.db`
> >                 do
> >                 echo "Rebuilding Table $i"
> >                 sqlite3 $i "vacuum;"
> >         done
> >
> > poc
>
> Hola Patric,
>
> Could you please spend a few words about the background of your recipie;
> Maybe it also deserves a chapter in the FAQ about troubleshooting?

Credit where credit is due: it's not my recipe. I got it from Srini, who
posted it at http://www.gnome.org/~sragavan/evolution-rebuild-summarydb

poc