This is more a note for the developers, though I am sure if some of you chime in, it may help them notice this is a issue.
Some stats: Dual G5, 2 Gigs Memory, 2 drive Raid Identity: Main Identity Folders: 70 Messages: 48,444 Data Folder Size: 397mb If I click on a single email, in this case 384k in size, plain text, it will take about 8-10 seconds to deal with the display of that email. During that time, I have a spinning beach ball, Entourage can do nothing else during this time. In general, Entourage seems to be only able to handle one action at a time. For example, it puts undo connection times on my email server, total time to connect 6 pop accounts is about 12 seconds. Total time to connect 6 pop accounts to the same email server using Outlook on windows is under 1 second. During the time the connections are in progress, I can click and hold on the connection monitor list, during that click and hold, no further action in Entourage can happen. IE: I just found a way to steal 6 pop connections from a email server for as long as I like, or at least until they timeout on the pop server. The same 384k email when viewed, can not be resized as it will invoke such a stall in Entourage that you can not move the mouse to grab the window. At least, when you do, you are so much ahead of it that it makes a mess of what you are trying to do. In pretty much any of the scenarios above, I can see both CPU's on my machine spike to 70% or slightly more, yes, that much for a email client! Launching the app in general takes too long compared to other apps, though this is at least tolerable since I need only do it once a day. All in all, I love Entourage for its features, its performance, I would not go as far to call it awful, but I will tell you, it is the worst of all the apps I have installed. I have seen these exact same problems happen on any of 10 other macs, from friends, family, clients etc. Seeing as how I have the fastest machine of them all, I can not imagine it being my setup, plus I have clean installed the OS so many times I know it can not be a setup issue. I would be so happy if Entourage would get a featureless update, one that only addressed performance. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
