Aaron Segura-2 wrote:
>
>
> Have you done a tcpdump during this to see where the delay is? I would
> think the server might be taking a long time to return results.
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 08:01 -0700, Ari El wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've recently upgraded my office laptop to Feisty, and I am quite
>> happy
>> with the increased Evo stability.
>>
>> However I have an issue with the GAL. This happened in Edgy (Evo 2.8)
>> too. Automatic GAL and exchange Contact list lookups work but are
>> painfully
>> slow.
>>
>> Example: In Preferences > Autocompletion, I just select the GAL; and also
>> in
>> my account properties, I limited GAL responses to just 10 elements (I
>> tried
>> with 100, 500 and 5000, this makes no difference)
>>
>> When composing a new email, after typing the first 5 characters of a
>> name, I get a 7 seconds (!!) delay in which the composing window becomes
>> totally unresponsive, until I get the list of matches. Every new
>> character I
>> add or delete, I get a new delay, which renders the whole thing
>> completely
>> unusable.
>>
>> In fact, if instead of the GAL, I only select to use my Exchange
>> contact
>> folder (which has 1000 entries) for autocompletion, I get the same lame
>> performance.
>>
>> In the "Contacts" View, I tried right-clicking in both the "Global
>> Address List" and my exchange Contacts, and selecting "Copy Book Content
>> Locally for offline operation", but this unfortunately does not improve
>> performance at all.
>>
>> The only way to make evo useful, in my case, is to autocomplete from a
>> local copy of my address list. Which is not useful for me, as I need to
>> constantly use the GAL (my company has some 20K employees).
>>
>> Can evolution be made to maintain a cache of the whole GAL and also to
>> cache my exchange Contacts, and use the cache all the time (not only in
>> offline mode)? I think this is what Outlook does. In any case, any
>> workaround will help!
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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How do I use tcpdump?
Also: Outlook inside VMware in the same computer does not seem to have the
slowness problem at all.
Thanks!
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