I confirm the UI sluggishness on OnePlus One, 3 GB RAM, quad-core Snapdragon 801 @ 2.5 GHz, Android 5.0.2.
Selecting a message takes about 1 s and message list scrolling is far from fluid even with a handful of messages. I have tried to both compact and rebuild the local data, but UI behavior did not change. Mihai On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 07:05:45PM -0700, Moop wrote: > In this case it is a Snapdragon 410 (1,2 GHz quad core) > paired with 2 GB or RAM and Android 4.4.4 on a 720P screen. > However, just hardware performance can be pretty much excluded > as a cause. Not only do smaller inboxes with an equal amount > of messages displayed (so the number of messages phone side > should be equal) have no issues, two other mail programs have > no trouble running the same large mail box without any lag. > If anything at all, there are some settings somewhere that > cause an insubordinate amount of processing to be done. > This phone can and should run this workload with absolute > ease and, in fact, it does run it with ease. Just not in K-9. > > There is a rather high number of unread messages, I am not > sure that might make any difference. > > On Friday, 14 August 2015 02:18:33 UTC+2, Richard wrote: > > I don't think I've ever encountered the slowness you are reporting. > > As a test I just opened a mailbox that has ~5500 messages (~44mb in > the message file on the server), pulled all ~5500 messages. I > encountered no sluggishness issues going through the message list or > opening any random message from anywhere in the list. > > One note, this was the archive of a (mostly) text-only mailing list, > so it's possible you are encountering html rendering issues, but I > don't remember any issues on mailboxes that have a lot of > html-encoded messages. > > I did this on a: > Samsung Note Edge (basically a Note-5, but with the edge screen) > Android 5.0.1 > 2.7 GHz Quad Core Processor > 3GB RAM > > What is your device, and its specs? > > > Date: Thursday, August 13, 2015 15:46:39 -0700 > > From: Moop <[email protected]> > > > > Thing is, the interface is even slow for me when I set this *Local > > folder* size to 25 or even 10 messages. The setting does not seem > > to matter, as long as K-9 tries to work with a large inbox (even > > without loading the messages), K-9 slows right down. > > > > On Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:39:23 UTC+2, Rodrigo Lopez wrote: > >> > >> As I am using POP3 accounts, there is a parameter in "Fetching > >> mail" named "Local folder size". The bigger that number, the > >> slower the GUI gets for me. Now it is set to 500, and the GUI is > >> laggy. > >> > >> So, probably your assumption is right, K-9 has problems dealing > >> with big mailboxes. I wonder why there is an option for 10.000 > >> local folder size... > >> > >> On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 3:00:02 AM UTC+2, Moop wrote: > >>> > >>> On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:04:48 UTC+2, Rodrigo Lopez wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Exactly same issue here, which is your local folder size? > >>>> > >>> > >>> I am not sure what you mean exactly, but your comment has given > >>> me an idea. When I load my main account with many thousands of > >>> e-mails and also lots of unread mails, I get slow performance. > >>> When I load an account with few e-mails and not so many unread > >>> mails I get good performance. This even happens when I limit > >>> the fetching to the past two weeks, or to 25 mails. This is all > >>> using IMAP. > >>> > >>> It seems K-9 has trouble with dealing with a mailbox with a > >>> large volume of mail, even if only a small portion of this mail > >>> is loaded. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
