On Thursday 19 February 2009 05:35:16 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"
Hmm - I've avoided that setting, as I didn't feel sure of what it does.
For
instance, I have 'Open threads that contain new, unread...... threads'. If
'List only open folders' means that only these folders are listed, copying and
moving messages would be a problem.
However, having re-started kmail, nothing looks any different. Does that
imply that we are not talking about the display, but how much reading kmail
does for every transaction?
Restart Kontact / Kmail. See if that helps.
OK. This is the first message to go out under the new setting. I'll see what
happens over the next few hours.
Anne