Re: [Evolution] Evolution performance bottleneck

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

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.

This is a big speculative jump - blaming the UI toolkit.  There are many
other moving parts in the stack.

If "I run virtual box and Evolution at the same time" is really the
condition I would first suspect you are thrashing to swap - it depends
on how VirtualBox is configured.

Run "top".

> 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. 

Yeah, I run GNOME3 + Evolution + Firefox + LibreOffice editing a 600
page document on a seven year old 32bit laptop.  It zips right along.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA