On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 10:28 -0400, Reid Vail wrote: > Hello group- > I have a performance question: > My wife is running ubuntu 13.04 with Evolution 3.6.4 and it seems to > me that it takes a long time to load; about 30 seconds from start to > load > She does have quite a lot of data. Using the Evolution backup tool > the compressed file is about 1gig. Her machine is not stellar but > should be sufficient. She has a standard 7200-rpm drive and a AMD > Athlon II X3 processor. When I watch on the system monitor the CPU > isn't working that hard, memory is fine, but the HD light is on solid > until software and data load. > Does this seem right?
Does she have lots of local mail? [as in: downloaded from POP accounts]. At some point Evolution changed from using [by default] MBox format for local mail to Maildir - I do not recall what version that was - but that can result in a big performance improvement as with MBox every folder is one file [all messages in a single file]. If you can either upgrade or just move her local accounts to Maildir that might help. Another thing to try is to just purge the cache [~/.cache/evolution/mail/ in current versions; I don't know what 3.6.x used, there is a wiki pages about versions and their data directories]. A third thing is that while many applications use sqlite many did not [or do not] vacuum their databases which results in slow performance and file bloat. These are the files that end in ".db" [find .local/share/evolution -name *.db]. See <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/11/all-those-sqlite-databases.html> I do not believe this is a problem with current versions of evolution; but 3.6.x is *old*. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:[email protected]> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
