On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:51 +0100, Martin Kho wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2009 14:01:43 Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 19 February 2009 12:32:16 Martin Kho wrote: > > > On Thursday 19 February 2009 06:35:16 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. > > > > > > > > Eli > > > > > > That's funny, I don't have this option. > > > > It is in both 1.10.3 and 1.11, the two versions I have at the moment. It's > > the lst option on that list, just before you define the wastebin folder. > > > > > Moving kmailrc out off the way > > > didn't help. My version of Kmail is 1.11.0. Do I have a wrong/old > > > version? > > > > No > > > > > Anyone else misses this option? How can I 'remove' config-files without > > > losing all my data? > > > > Rename config file if you want to experiment. You won't lose your data. > > > > Anne > > Ah... you're using IMAP, right? I have gone back to POP3. IMAP with Gmail gave > me so many timeouts, that I decided to stop using it. Thought it were just > network problems. Gmail IMAP works fine for me using Evolution. In fact it's where I read this list. poc
