I'm curious, and have a qustion or two.
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 02:50:03 -0800, Scott Haneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is more a note for the developers, though I am sure if some of you > chime in, it may help them notice this is a issue. > > Some stats: > Dual G5, 2 Gigs Memory, 2 drive Raid > > Identity: Main Identity > Folders: 70 > Messages: 48,444 > Data Folder Size: 397mb > > If I click on a single email, in this case 384k in size, plain text, it will > take about 8-10 seconds to deal with the display of that email. During that That is a HUGE MESSAGE for plain text. It would print out to something around 100 pages. I don't think you'd see much faster performance in any mail program. But, one suggestion: make sure you have chosen a fixed space font for plain text display, such as Monaco or Courier. I believe that will display faster than a variable spaced font like Times or Helvetica. > time, I have a spinning beach ball, Entourage can do nothing else during > this time. > > In general, Entourage seems to be only able to handle one action at a time. > For example, it puts undo connection times on my email server, total time to > connect 6 pop accounts is about 12 seconds. Total time to connect 6 pop > accounts to the same email server using Outlook on windows is under 1 > second. During the time the connections are in progress, I can click and > hold on the connection monitor list, during that click and hold, no further > action in Entourage can happen. IE: I just found a way to steal 6 pop > connections from a email server for as long as I like, or at least until > they timeout on the pop server. > This sounds more like a need to protect Entourage against people who do something malicious like "stealing connections from a mail server" for no purpose. > The same 384k email when viewed, can not be resized as it will invoke such a > stall in Entourage that you can not move the mouse to grab the window. At > least, when you do, you are so much ahead of it that it makes a mess of what > you are trying to do. I do not experience any resize problems with my larger messages, although none approach 384K. > > In pretty much any of the scenarios above, I can see both CPU's on my > machine spike to 70% or slightly more, yes, that much for a email client! > Something isn't right here. And I'm not sure the problem is with Entourage. > Launching the app in general takes too long compared to other apps, though > this is at least tolerable since I need only do it once a day. > Do you have any schedules set to run at launch? Do you have custom views open that build when you launch? These can slow things down. I tend to agree that launch time can use some improvement, but you can help by eliminating such extra things. I try to have just the main mail browser open to the Inbox when I shut Erage down, so that is all that has to display at launch time. It helps. > All in all, I love Entourage for its features, its performance, I would not > go as far to call it awful, but I will tell you, it is the worst of all the > apps I have installed. Hah! Try Dreamweaver! Try Acrobat Reader! Try Omniweb with a couple of windows open! I have seen these exact same problems happen on any > of 10 other macs, from friends, family, clients etc. Seeing as how I have > the fastest machine of them all, I can not imagine it being my setup, plus I > have clean installed the OS so many times I know it can not be a setup > issue. > I find it hard to believe that all your friends and family routinely send 100-page plain text messages to one another! Seriously, I find Entourage to be downright zippy most of the time, unless I have dozens of apps open (which happens, and then everything crawls until I shut most of them down or logout and log back in). I have an 800 MHz iMac with 1 GB RAM. One other suggestion. Try using Finder to duplicate your Identity folder, and then delete the old identity folder and rename to new to replace it. This defrags your files; sometimes this will help. Or, same result: just rebuild the database. That also creates a new contiguous file. > I would be so happy if Entourage would get a featureless update, one that > only addressed performance. > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 > <http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novato, CA U.S.A. > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
