Evolution crawls on FreeBSD

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:46:15 -0600, tesolarisc  
<per-olof.nilsson2 at comhem.se> wrote:

>
> On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:46 -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
>> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:20:47 -0500
>> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 19:12 -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
>> > > On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:50:53 -0500
>> > > Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 18:16 -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
>> > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0RC3 and I'm trying to figure out why  
>> evolution takes over a minute to start, there are no error messages if  
>> I run it from terminal window.  First I was running 6.3 but I upgraded  
>> to 7.0 thinking that it might of solve the problem but it didn't.  What  
>> amazes me is, I've got ubuntu installed on the same machine and it only  
>> takes 3 seconds to start, also it only takes 3 seconds to start in  
>> windows.  Evolution running like this is completely worthless.  Any  
>> ideas what might be causing this?  Please respond to my email address  
>> also.
>> > > >
>> > > > This has been discussed on this mailing list before.  The number  
>> of
>> > > > plug-ins enabled in Evo slows down the load time as the loader is
>> > > > spinning trying to load each plug-in.  You should disable all  
>> unneeded
>> > > > plug-ins.
>> > > >
>> > > > Joe
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
>> > >
>> > > Plug-ins don't seem to have an effect when running it on ubuntu,  
>> all the plug-ins are enabled under ubuntu and still starts in 3  
>> seconds.  Are you trying to say that the FreeBSD loader is kind of  
>> primitive comparing to the linux loader?
>> >
>> > No.  I'm saying that the tasks the FreeBSD loader performs takes  
>> longer
>> > than the ones performed by the Linux loader.
>>
>> Well, I disabled all the plugins and still takes 40 seconds to open  
>> that's a lot longer than linux with all the plugins enabled.  As far  
>> I'm concerned evolution is out of my list of programs, I still have my  
>> doubts about the real reason as to why it takes so long to open.  In  
>> reality there's no real reason as to why a program will take so long to  
>> open, if that's the case evolution will loose a lot of users in the  
>> FreeBSD community.
> For me evolution takes 3 minutes and 20 seconds to start up...
> It's sick....can't use it anymore.
>
> ofcourse it's a "bug", from ~8 seconds to minutes with the same setup...
> ..sad

How exactly the 'me too' is going to help us?



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