Re: [Evolution] About performance

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 20:20 +0100, Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado wrote:
> Hello, 
> I'm experiencing a lot of performance issues with latests evolution. I
> think that since introduction of sql backend. 
> The problem is that I have to wait for a new mail window about  16
> secs, or more. It constantly hangs or crashes and the interface is
> little responsive. 
> Evo version is 3.6.2.
> I think this is not normal.

Nope.

>  I have to say that software is on a SSD disk and data is on SATA 3GB
> disk. I don't see much IO on disks while operating so it seems to be
> something related with evo in its core. 
> Is someone experiencing this kind of issues?

Not I.  Occasionally it has a l-o-n-g exit/shutdown.  But navigation,
message viewing, starting is all very rapid.

evolution-3.6.3-1.1.x86_64

> I have that the problem is so awful that I'm thinking to switch to
> thunderbird. 
> I think that developers must put an exclamation mark on this issue
> since will made evo lost every client. With no users to maintain the
> project will die. So it's a blocking issue. 

Er?  It is stable for me.

> Some data:
> 5 accounts configured. IMAP/POP

Four accounts, all IMAP.

> 1002M .cache/evolution/

awilliam linux-nysu:~> du -ks .cache/evolution
6,097,476 .cache/evolution
> du -sh .local/share/evolution/
> 3,2G .local/share/evolution/
> My system has 8GB and no need to swap and a RAID 1 disk for the data
> storage. System is on SSD as I said before. 
> Main account has only 2000 Mails, the rest is on local disk (Account)
> that for me is like a backup for the online accounts (IMAP ones). 

I have no idea how many messages my main account has,  well over 100K.

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
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