tor, 2002-11-07 kl. 02:09 skrev David McNab: > Evolution is an amazingly good email and groupware client in almost every respect >except one - speed.
Agreed. > For one thing, evolution takes about 10 seconds to start up (on a 1.5GHz Athlon XP). Think yourself lucky, it takes at least 30 seconds on an RH 7.2 / kernel 2.4.19 (faster than 2.4.18), Gnome 1.4, 128MB 869 MHz Duron Compaq with a 20 MB IDE disk. > 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. Don't know what version of Evo you're running, but with 1.0.8 doing a 'killev' first and then finding all *.ibex files and deleting them regularly does wonders with reading in new mail from /var/mail MBOX mail (same machine) with SSL-based pop3. > On sending (via SMTP on localhost), it takes up to 10 secs to get a short text-only >message out. This might well be due to a duff DNS server; check that, at least. Mine is super fast. > 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. I changed to Evo from Netscape 4.7, which was also super fast - but I'd never go back again. Apart from anything else, Evo has a lot more features - including my LDAP-based address list. > Is there anything I can do to make Evolution run faster? More RAM? Most of my speed problems come through shitty IDE disk swapping - when will people design payable notebooks with a SCSI disk? I have a colleague with a newish 1 GB RAM IBM Thinkpad and it's super fast with Red Hat / Gnome 2. > (To be fair, I have to say that I've got about 45 physical folders, each with >between 10 and 4000 messages). I just counted and I have around 50 folders with anything up to 7,500 stored mails - mailing list archives, for reference and help. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw So mangt eit ord kunde vori usagt. e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.billy.demon.nl _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
