Slow GUI with Evolution (and only with Evolution)
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Feb 16 14:36:01 UTC 2005
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:27, Scot L. Harris wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:33, D. D. Brierton wrote:
>> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:15 -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
>> > How often is evolution set to check for new mail? I've observed
>> > that evolution is painfully slow whenever it's doing its new
>> > mail check. In my case it's looking at two IMAP accounts and
>> > one Exchange account.
>>
>> The painful slowness is caused by the spam filtering, in
>> particular the "Include remote tests" option. Go to:
>>
>> Tools -> Settings -> Mail Preferences -> Junk
>>
>> and try disabling "Include remote tests" and see if that helps. If
>> it is still too slow then try tweaking your spamassassin setup
>> further. If it's still too slow disable spam filtering altogether
>> and look into server side solutions. The slowness is caused by
>> spamassassin, not evolution.
>
>This is particularly true if you are trying to run every message
> through spamassassin. I still use a filter to run spamassassin,
> not the built in version. This allows me to filter things such as
> mailing lists and such prior to invoking spamassassin so only a
> small percentage of my email incurs the cost of running
> spamassassin on it.
>
>And I don't use any of the network checks. Just bayes and selected
> rule sets.
And where would one go to edit the file that controls this in a kde
environment Scot? I'd like to see if I can speed it up, and reduce
its penchant for grabbing every cpu cycle it can get. With a mail
fetch run every 15 minutes, this machine spends 20% of its time with
the keyboard very effectively locked out. This didn't happen till I
started using sa with kmail.
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>
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