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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090219/070b33e4/attachment.bin
