On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 11:39, David McNab wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Evolution 1.0.8 on Debian sid, over KDE 3.0 (sometimes) and Gnome2 >(other times). > > Evolution is an amazingly good email and groupware client in almost every respect >except one - speed. > > For one thing, evolution takes about 10 seconds to start up (on a 1.5GHz Athlon XP). > > Also, it takes forever to read in emails, even when reading from local spool file >(not POP3). Specifically, it takes up to 1 second to read in each message and sort it >to the folders.
This u need to upgrade to fix. > On sending (via SMTP on localhost), it takes up to 10 secs to get a short text-only >message out. > > On the whole, Evolution is my email prog of choice. But the painful performance has >for now forced me onto Sylpheed (which works super-fast in the same environment). But >I find Sylpheed to be a bit flaky - for example, outbound mails fail to actually >send, and no indication is given of this. > > Is there anything I can do to make Evolution run faster? > > (To be fair, I have to say that I've got about 45 physical folders, each with >between 10 and 4000 messages). > > All help will be gratefully appreciated. I think any of your startup (&startup of things like the editor) problems are oaf related. Try logging out, then running oaf-slay and rm -rf /tmp/orbit-* and restarting. I'm using an athlon 1.2 and although i dont have lots of folders, which will impact startup time, it certainly runs faster than that. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
