On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 04:15, Scott Otterson wrote:
> Jeff, those are great numbers but I suspect the test isn't measuring the
> thing I'm talking about.  What I'm talking about is amount of time
> evolution spends rechecking message headers and updating vfolders.  For
> example, I just did this:
> 
> - started evolution
> - waited for the INBOX to show up (lots of messages about vfolders
>                                    scanning for new headers)
> - open an email
> - delete that email
> - click on a different email header
> - again, I see a bunch of messages about scanning for new headers, etc.
> 
> The delay for the 2nd check is about as long as when I first started
> evolution.  I haven't yet figured out when evolution decides to go
> through all this checking and rechecking but it seems to be quite a lot
> more often than 1.08.  This really makes evolution harder to use on a
> slow modem connection.  
> 
> Can you think of a way to test this aspect?  Do you think that the
> checking and rechecking is because of evolutions's interaction with UW
> IMAP v.s. other kinds of IMAP?  If so, the problem is solvable because
> the mozilla IMAP doesn't spend this much time checking and rechecking.

This could be anything, it definetly isn't the tcp code.  Its probably a
vfolder or imap thread deadlock or something like that.

Not much use discussing it here, you need to create a bug, and attach a
backtrace of all threads of evolution-mail when it is in a solidly hung
state.




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