Have you done a tcpdump during this to see where the delay is? I would think the server might be taking a long time to return results.
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 08:01 -0700, Ari El wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently upgraded my office laptop to Feisty, and I am quite happy > with the increased Evo stability. > > However I have an issue with the GAL. This happened in Edgy (Evo 2.8) > too. Automatic GAL and exchange Contact list lookups work but are painfully > slow. > > Example: In Preferences > Autocompletion, I just select the GAL; and also in > my account properties, I limited GAL responses to just 10 elements (I tried > with 100, 500 and 5000, this makes no difference) > > When composing a new email, after typing the first 5 characters of a > name, I get a 7 seconds (!!) delay in which the composing window becomes > totally unresponsive, until I get the list of matches. Every new character I > add or delete, I get a new delay, which renders the whole thing completely > unusable. > > In fact, if instead of the GAL, I only select to use my Exchange contact > folder (which has 1000 entries) for autocompletion, I get the same lame > performance. > > In the "Contacts" View, I tried right-clicking in both the "Global > Address List" and my exchange Contacts, and selecting "Copy Book Content > Locally for offline operation", but this unfortunately does not improve > performance at all. > > The only way to make evo useful, in my case, is to autocomplete from a > local copy of my address list. Which is not useful for me, as I need to > constantly use the GAL (my company has some 20K employees). > > Can evolution be made to maintain a cache of the whole GAL and also to > cache my exchange Contacts, and use the cache all the time (not only in > offline mode)? I think this is what Outlook does. In any case, any > workaround will help! > > Thanks!! > > > > > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
