On Thursday 19 February 2009 14:03:56 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2009 11:49:16 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > On Thursday 19 February 2009 13:06:37 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > 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" > > > > > > > > Restart Kontact / Kmail. See if that helps. > > > > > > After doing this, it took 14 seconds before the pinentry box popped up. > > > > I'm not familiar with using gpg keys. However, do you continue to have > > the same problem, if you were to not use gpg (at least for the sake of > > testing). > > It shouldn't make any difference. It seems to me that calling pinentry is > the first stage of the actual send. Once it gets to that stage things > happen quickly. I've sent just one since the 14-second one, and that took > 8 seconds. We'll see how long this one takes. I've turned off signing, so > that it keeps everything as simple as possible. > >From my understanding, pinentry is used for dealing with gpg keys. Like you indicate, once you get past pinentry opening then everything seems to be OK. So, it would seem that everytime you try to create a new email, you are running a new instance of pinentry and that what seems to be taking up the time. At least from the description of whats going on so far. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090219/6b1e9c84/attachment.html
