On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:23 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> It's important to say what *kind* of folder. Is it local or remote? If >> local, is it an mbox and if so how big is it? Has it been expunged >> (compacted) recently? It might also be relevant to know something about >> the disk and filesystem the folder is on, e.g. a USB-conected external >> disk versus a local SCSI disk, an ext3 filesystem versus a FUSE >> filesystem such as NTFS-3g. If the folder is remote, what kind of server >> is it? When you say sometimes it's quick but mostly it's slow, are you >> talking about the same folder or different ones? Is there any >> correlation with how long the Evo session has been running? >> > > O-K: > > All folders are local and in the default (mbox) format. > > I have Evo set to delete trashed messages on exit, but I haven't > formally expunged them. > > The disk is a Seagate 300GB SATA internal drive with a 230GB ext3 > partition/file system for /home. > > The quick times seem to be different folders from the slow ones, but > sometimes even the slow ones are pretty fast (usually not right away > but after a few saves, though this is not an empirical measurement). > > This starts as soon as Evo comes up (usually shortly after a reboot, > which is rare), and I rarely close or restart Evo unless I'm > rebooting. > > Does that help? Let me know if you need more info. >
I just timed a small email message save to a local sub-subfolder of my main local folder: 16-17 seconds. This is a small email message being saved to a 62MB folder. I noticed that I seem to have a number of ev-summary-met files for folders that no longer exist - could this be related? mhr _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
