Re: [Evolution] About performance

[Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado <gaguilar aguilardelgado com>]

Hi Adam, 

It seems it's working nice for you. 

I don't understand what really happens. I will try to do some investigation. It would be nice to run under a tracer
so I can see where the time is lost...



Thank you. 


El lun, 11-03-2013 a las 15:48 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams escribió:
> 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.