On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:51 +0100, Martin Kho wrote:
On Thursday 19 February 2009 14:01:43 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009 12:32:16 Martin Kho wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 February 2009 06:35:16 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 22:03:52 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:50:09 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 21:43:34 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > > I want to file a report concerning slowness and transitory
> > > > > > freezes, on the Acer Aspire One. I have some observations
that
> > > > > > need to be passed on. However, I'm unsure about the
component
> > > > > > choice. I thought it would be kwin, but that's not an
option.
> > > > > > It's definitely a graphics rendering problem, so which
component
> > > > > > do I choose?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anne
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe you could describe what the problem is. Maybe including
the
> > > > > hardware embedded in the laptop (ie video card, cpu type,
memory
> > > > > etc.)
> > > >
> > > > Basically, I had been seeing increasing slowdowns of many functions,
> > > > including long pauses before kmail could send a message out (and
> > > > during which no other activity was possible). These could last
> > > > anything up to around 15 seconds. It had proved impossible to find a
> > > > pattern to the behaviour. I could have been suffering from this for
> > > > hours, then suddenly one or two messages would depart promptly.
> > >
> > > One other thing that you can try to improve performance is click on:
> > >
> > > Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Accounts -> (The Account that you
are
> > > using) -> Modify -> Advanced
> > >
> > > Make sure that there is a check mark next to "List Only Open
Folders"
> > >
> > > Restart Kontact / Kmail. See if that helps.
> > >
> > > Eli
> >
> > That's funny, I don't have this option.
>
> It is in both 1.10.3 and 1.11, the two versions I have at the moment. It's
> the lst option on that list, just before you define the wastebin folder.
>
> > Moving kmailrc out off the way
> > didn't help. My version of Kmail is 1.11.0. Do I have a wrong/old
> > version?
>
> No
>
> > Anyone else misses this option? How can I 'remove' config-files
without
> > losing all my data?
>
> Rename config file if you want to experiment. You won't lose your data.
>
> Anne
Ah... you're using IMAP, right? I have gone back to POP3. IMAP with Gmail gave
me so many timeouts, that I decided to stop using it. Thought it were just
network problems.
Gmail IMAP works fine for me using Evolution. In fact it's where I read
this list.
poc