Re: evolution slowness

by pruning i mean cleaning out. i don't like my inbox to reach over 50
mails so i am constantly deleting. none of my other folders are allowed
to get too large either.

and when i delete i always delete and expunge and then throughout the
day i empty the trash. 

no NFS and no vFolders.

what release will accompany FC3? anyone know?

thanks again for your help.

jack

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 11:16, guenther wrote:
> Cc'ing the list, as the information contained isn't private and I
> assume, the reply wasn't meant to be personal only.
> 
> Please use Reply To List or Reply To All, unless you really mean to
> contact me privately.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 16:48, jack wallen wrote:
> > i actually use local delivery (with the help of procmail). i have two
> > accounts set up in evolution. pretty much all of the folders are
> > constantly pruned so they all stay relatively small. i also expunge and
> > empty the trash regularly. 
> 
> I don't know what you mean by "pruned" given the extra step of expunging
> after that. But please bear in mind, that deleting a mail only marks the
> mail for deletion. It still is inside the file, unless you expunge that
> folder or empty the trash (expunge on all folders).
> 
> This is common practice for email clients and due to increasing speed.
> Re-writing the whole folder for eliminating a few k of chars... ;)
> 
> 
> > this happens pretty much any time i check my email, move a mail from one
> > folder to another, and sometimes when switching from one folder to
> > another. 
> 
> Do you happen to use NFS? A lot of vFolders?
> 
> 
> > yeah i know FC1 is pretty outdated. i guess one of these days i'm going
> > to have to upgrade to FC2 and that'll probably happen this winter. 
> 
> FC3 probably will be released until then... ;-)
> 
> 
> > i didn't realize 1.5 was still in beta. for some odd reason i thought it
> > was released. guess i'll remain happy with 1.4.5. ;-)
> 
> FYI: The first release candidate will be released pretty soon. And the
> next stable major release will be Evolution 2.0.
> 
> 
> > thanks for all your help!
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> ...guenther
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:54, guenther wrote:
> > > > okay it's not my machine cause i'm only having trouble with evolution.
> > > > but why is evolution coming to such a slow and painful halt? every time
> > > > i delete and email or check my email the 'storing folder' process is
> > > > amazingly time consuming. 
> > > 
> > > This can have different causes -- and frankly, I'm not sure I got, when
> > > this happens exactly. What's the protocol? Can you explain more
> > > detailed, when this happens?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > FWIW, storing large mbox files (Local, POP, IMAP with mbox files
> > > backend) sure can be a pain. Imagine a slow disk and a large folder (at
> > > least 20 MByte). Now, if you delete and *expunge* any mail from that
> > > folder, the whole folder needs to be re-written...
> > > 
> > > Remember, that there is a setting to automatically expunge on closing
> > > Evolution. This can lead to heavy disk activity and take some time till
> > > Evo can close.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > i'm using 1.4.5 on Fedora Core 1. i'd love to update but obviously this
> > > > process is too difficult when using anything but SuSE.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, IMHO nope. What's the version you want to upgrade to?
> > > 
> > > There haven't been much changes in the 1.4.x tree since 1.4.5. Remember,
> > > 1.5.x still is in beta stage. If your distro doesn't ship with recent
> > > Evo versions or doesn't update, please complain to them.
> > > 
> > > However, AFAIK all "bleeding edge" distros do ship Evolution 1.5.x and
> > > update it to the latest beta version frequently.
> > > 
> > > btw: Fedora Core 1 is quite outdated. ;-)
> > > 
> > > ...guenther
-- 
jack wallen, jr.   L O N G  L I V E  L O N G  R I D E S 

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