Re: [Evolution] Evolution performance bottleneck

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 21:34 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I've got 4 POP accounts and experience the performance issue on
> openbox and JWM, if I run another resource hungry app. Ass a matter of
> fact, it happens if I run virtual box and Evolution at the same time.
> When using Claws instead of Evolution, there are no performance issues,
> so I guess it's GTK 3 what does cause the issues. My machine is an
> Athlon dual-core with 4 GiB and my install is a 64-bit architecture

2.1 GHz

> Arch Linux, IOW all software are current stable releases from upstream.
> JFTR even if I would like to run GNOME on my machine, I couldn't,
> because my machine is much to slow to run GNOME 3. You should test
> Xfce4, openbox, JWM, Mate or KDE. Yes, even KDE on my machine is ok,
> but Cinnamon does behave as bad as GNOME 3 does. I suspect you need
> another WM/DE.