On May 26, 2014 6:36 PM, "Reid Vail" <rsv869 roadrunner com> wrote:
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> Hello group-
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> I have a performance question:
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> My wife is running ubuntu 13.04 with Evolution 3.6.4 and it seems to me that it takes a long time to load; about 30 seconds from start to load
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> She does have quite a lot of data. Using the Evolution backup tool the compressed file is about 1gig. Her machine is not stellar but should be sufficient. She has a standard 7200-rpm drive and a AMD Athlon II X3 processor. When I watch on the system monitor the CPU isn't working that hard, memory is fine, but the HD light is on solid until software and data load.
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Hi is it possible that the disk is heavily fragmented or developing some bad blocks which forces it to try to read the same location several times until it succeeds? Worth making a disk check.
Emre