[26786] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.23: evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Tue Mar 28 18:40:51 2006
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:40:42 -0500
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@mit.edu>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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Quoting William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>:
> My normal inbox runs between 1500 and 2000 messages.
> It does take evolution a bit of time to start up with it.
> My spamscreen folder is set to purge after 2 days as well, but it
> still gets about 3000 messages, and it takes evolution about two
> minutes to do whataever caching its doing before putting my first
> "training message of the day" into it.
I experience the same when the number of messages is not too high; I currently
have about 3400 messages and see similar delays. But when it gets higher, the
performance deteriorates rapidly. It seems highly non-linear as the quota
limit is approached.
> I'm not sure we fully understand what the problem is here. Yes,
> there is a performance problem, but I'm not convinced that the
> problem lies within evolution.
I have not such a dramatic slowdown with other applications I have tried,
including ftp, web browsing, etc.
> Again, are you accessing AFS through a NAT router?
My housemate (jweiss) says:
"the suns access AFS thru a router that does not do NAT.
...it's behind an IPIP tunnel. but I believe the real problem is just
how much
data evolution wants to write.
probably compounded by the cable modem being really bad at packet queuing."
Knowing relatively little about the network, how would NAT affect the problem?
+ Richard
