Re: [Evolution] a challenge to the developers

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

> > >  address books including LDAP
> > Yep
> Recently I had Evo freeze on me quite often - until I removed an LDAP
> address book and since then, not a single lockup. The freezes were when
> displaying mail and it turns out that the "load images from people in
> address book" (or whatever) was causing problems.  The LDAP address book
> happened to be connected through a DAVMail connector to our enterprise
> exchange GAL - some 40000 addresses - so where the network problems were
> I don't know, but looking at straces and debug logs it doesn't look like
> it was a problem with Evo directly, but more a problem with Evo not
> recovering gracefully from data flow problems elsewhere.

Yea, that is big.  All the clients struggle with real-world size address
books.  Try syncing Thunderous Turd with a GroupDAV address book of
~19,000 contacts.  It basically just stops working.  Evo keeps working,
but really chugs;  there is no way you could do type-ahead lookup in
such an address book.   And as an address book delivery service LDAP
just sucks.