Re: [Evolution] Evolution performance bottleneck

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:50:00 +0100
Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 22:02 +0100, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> > 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 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.
> >
> > Thanks. I did not think of Gnome as being the possible culprit.
>
> GNOME was not mentioned as a possible culprit for Evolution issues in
> the email that you quoted.

Yesno ;). Indeed I experience the same or a similar issue, at least a
performance issue, if I run Evolution and at least another application
that is very resource hungry. I don't have the same problem if I use a
GTK 2 based MUA instead, so it might or might not be related to GTK 3
in combination with my computer. The issues I experience with GNOME and
Cinnamon are most likely related to the graphics, but when experiencing
performance issues, it never can harm to test a lightweight WM/DE. JFTR
receiving and storing the received messages works perfect when running
Evolution only or Evolution and a few other applications that aren't
that resource hungry as virtual box is. Btw. when running a distro that
provides a complete environment by a default install, it can't
harm to check, if all started services are needed. If I wouldn't use
Arch Linux, but install Suse or Debian etc., I would do an "expert"
install or what ever it's called. IMO it's better to spend a few
minutes to chose what we need, instead of having tons of unneeded
services running, that could cause trouble. Perhaps I'm to pedantic,
since I use my Linux much for real-time audio work, maybe no unneeded
service has really impact to an application as Evolution.