Re: [Evolution] About performance

[Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado <gaguilar aguilardelgado com>]

Hello,

Yes, I warned about this and disk problems some time ago. Now it's time 
to switch.

Last version of evolution constantly crashed for me (the one comes with 
ubuntu 13.04). Sent a pair of bug reports with launchpad but I cannot 
continue use the program with this high degree of problems.

I was a high evangelist of evolution but right now it has not the 
quality it used to have.

Thunderbird seems to have progressed better and in a more robust way. It 
also handles sieve.

I hope I can switch back to evolution when this kind of problems are 
solved. The most important one is performance because a mail client that 
is so slow is the worst of all usability problems.

I have to say that all my friends also switched to Thunderbird and never 
looked back. Hope I can look back in near future because I used to love 
this application... (Evolution now!)

Best regards,

PS: I'm quite surprised to see that developers never saw the performance 
problem to come... Do you use evolution in your day to day work?


El 11/03/13 21:55, Matthew Barnes escribió:
> On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 20:20 +0100, Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado wrote:
> > 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.
> This may be related to a massive widget leak that Milan discovered in
> the composer window.
>
> Widgets from closed composer windows were sticking around in memory and
> responding to events, which eats up CPU.  So the more composer windows
> you create during an Evolution session the slower it gets.
>
> I believe the bulk of the leakage was fixed in GtkHTML 4.6.3.
>
> Matthew Barnes