On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 09:02 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:44 +0100, Peter Saffrey wrote: > > Just timed opening a new message at over 2 minutes. The folder had > > been opened before. It's quite a big folder - 1600 messages - but the > > message itself is only 6k. > > Hm. I don't have folders that big but others have posted here with much > larger folders without any issues. > > Is the message plain text, or does it have lots of HTML formatting? I > have a bug filed where some messages I receive, particularly from > Amazon, take well over a minute or two to open. My CPU is very busy > during this as well. These messages are NOT large; they are maybe 1100 > lines long, and 30k or so. Plenty of other messages, a lot bigger, > don't have this problem.
I get this too occasionally (not specifically from Amazon but from random other places). Annoyingly, much of the time the message turns out to be spam. > There's something about the HTML in this particular message that gives > either evolution or the gtkhtml lib or something fits. > > > Also timed moving a small mail between two previously opened folders > > at about 30 seconds. It sounds like I'm still not getting the > > performance I should. > > I agree, that seems slow to me, although moving messages does sometimes > seem a bit pokey to me as well. > > > Will your new Makefile be sufficiently compatible with the old one > > that I can drop it in and run an update cleanly? > > Yes, definitely. I doubt it will make much difference, though you can > try it. It would be interesting to know what Evo is doing during this > time, but I don't have any idea how you can find that out. It's also relevant to know what's the server, and how loaded it is. For example, does a different client (e.g. Thunderbird) go any faster on these folder operations? poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list