Slow Evo and .xscreensaver file in home

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Fri Jun 10 23:02:43 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 18:09 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 14:06 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 20:45 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> > > Problem 4:
> > > Evolution is dog slow when downloading mail from an ISP pop server.
> > > 
> > Thanks.  Which version of Evolution? 
> 
> evolution-2.2.2-8
> >  Does setting CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1
> > yield any useful debug info?
> 
> Is this a variable you set in evolution or something you set in the
> shell before launching Evolution.?

Set in a shell, then run evolution &> evolution.log to capture all of
the debug info.  And there is a lot.

> Is this slowness a result of AV scanners or something? Mozilla mail and
> Thunderbird are fairly fast downloading mail compared to Evolution.

It's just Evo in general.  It is sooooo slow.  I *love* the features,
but absolutely *hate* the speed.  With an IMAP server it is just
ridiculously slow.

Thomas




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