Re: FC1 - Evolution Pauses While Building Vfolders
From: flap flop (flap_at_home.net)
Date: 06/10/04
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:21:23 +0200
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 05:30:15 +0000, James T wrote:
>
> Some Background:
>
> I'm currently running a very stock i386 version of Fedora Core 1 on a AMD
> Athlon64 system (3200+ processor, 1 gig of ram, w/2 gigs of swap space on
> a 120 gig [single partition] ATA133 harddrive). This machine is used at
> work. Due to the large amount of email received/sent each day to clients,
> I use an elaborate email (non-Vfolder) layout containing a separate folder
> for each client account I deal with, and include about a dozen other
> required folders for email sorting usage. This would currently comprise of
> about 125+ folders & at least double that in email rules. This
> email layout/structure will continue to grow steadily (about a dozen added
> each day) as I work with additional clients.
>
> The Issue:
>
> My issue is with opening Evolution each session & how it opens the email
> files to build the Vfolders list. Due to the number of folders, it gets
> about 70% complete & the entire system freezes for about 5-6 seconds, then
> continues to load the rest of the files & works through out the session
> without issue. The load on the CPU reports to be at 90%+ during this
> loading activity & swap shows no activity. I suspect this
> application/system behavior is expected due to the large amount of files
> and data it is required to open/read.
I have the same problem since upgrading to FC1 from RedHat 8.
Maybe you also got a new evolution version with the FC1?
Maybe the folders will have to be converted (I wouldn't know how though)
into a new format?
Flip
> Even though things are not broken & working well in every way expect for
> this issue, I would like to know if there is anything that can be done to
> remove or reduce this delaying/pausing effect. I would like to address
> the issue now while the delay is still fairly short, and before this
> system really becomes bogged down with a few hundred more folders &
> several hundred more rules.
>
> My Questions:
>
> 1 - Being an old DOS person, I was figuring an adjustment similar in
> effect to the files, stacks & buffer settings in the old DOS config.sys
> files would need to be made. How/where would I look for these types of
> settings and what would be optimal for my situation?
>
> 2 - I'm also looking to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 (i386 version) will doing
> this alleviate this issue? If not, will it make it worse?
>
> 3 - Is there anything else recommend I try or look at?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> James T.
> turajb@_NOSPAM_hoflink.com
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