Evolution 2.22 slowness and other oddities.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:29 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> I recently upgraded to gnome 2.22 from 2.20.  I use evolution heavily
> and despite the talk of speed improvements in 2.22, on the contrary I
> see it being _much_ slower, on the order of half as fast.  This is
> running on FreeBSD 6.2-stable (circa Jan 1 2008) on amd64.  Nothing else
> seems particularly slower, just evolution.  In particular I see redraws
> go very slowly, redrawing part, pausing, redrawing more, pausing, etc.

Others have reported this, but I don't see it.  I'm on RELENG_7 with an
nVidia graphics card driven by nvidia.  My amd64 machine also has an
nVidia card driven by nv.  Both cards support render.  Assuming your
card supports render, you could try removing ltasneededhack from evo's
Makefile, then rebuild it.  That's really the biggest change we have
from stock Evo.  I don't see how that could cause redraw problems.

If it doesn't work, you could check with the Evo developers, or file a
bug in GNOME's Bugzilla.

> 
> Also, on my P4 laptop (Dell 5160), the clock applet is crashing
> instantly on startup.  The interesting bit of the backtrace there is:
> 
> 0x296a2639 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #0  0x296a2639 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x296813e1 in waitpid () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0x2962c242 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.2
> #3  0x2935570b in g_spawn_sync () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #4  0x29355977 in g_spawn_command_line_sync ()
>    from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #5  0x2a435d47 in bugbuddy_segv_handle ()
>    from /usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
> #6  0x29633f81 in sigaction () from /lib/libpthread.so.2
> #7  <signal handler called>
> #8  0x287b8844 in polkit_caller_unref () from /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so.2

This stack is useless.  You'll need to rebuild at least gnome-panel with
debugging symbols, and probably libc and libpthread as well.  Then,
run /usr/local/libexec/clock-applet in gdb, add the applet to the panel,
and get a back trace when it crashes.

Joe

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