On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 09:05 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Besides, it doesn't explain the slow startup (TB startup as normal > > regardless of where the mail dir was), nor does it explain the > > addressbook issues. > > I thought I had in the first reply I sent you. It's to do with file > locking. Evolution assumes that its private store of data (i.e. where > it stores the "On My Computer" stuff) is local to the machine and so > uses a particular type of file locking. File locks are a particularly > troublesome area of NFS and some of the kludges in NFS to try and cope > with it are nasty and horrible and slow. It's probably not helped by > using symbolic links.
I'd suggest using Maildir as the local store format (rather than the usual mbox). It's designed avoid file locking and should work better with NFS. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
