Evolution 2.22 slowness and other oddities.

[Frank Mayhar]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 23:58 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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.

Well, I _am_ running it remotely, not locally, so I suppose that could
make a difference.  It certainly doesn't have anything to do with the
card, since it's the same regardless of where the X server is.

> 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.

I was afraid of that.  If it annoys me too much I'll do this.
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