evolution slow on 7.0

[James Harrison]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:44 +0100, Oliver Peter wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:45:28PM -0700, James wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > first, I know the subject line is a goldmine for jokes, but I couldn't
> > think of a better way to phrase it.
> > 
> > Ever since I moved to FreeBSD 7.0, the evolution mail client has become
> > ridiculously slow for me. It takes two or three minutes to start up,
> > right clicking on a folder takes several minutes to display a context
> > menu etc
> > 
> > My install process was as follows:
> > 
> > 1. backup my home directory from a FreeBSD 6.2 install
> > 2. Format the hard drive
> > 3. Install 7.0 beta 1.5
> > 4. csup sources and install beta 2.0
> > 5. pkg_add xorg, gnome etc -- evolution was slow as a dog from this
> > 6. portsnap fetch extract
> > 7. follow the instructions in UPDATING for updating gnome
> > 
> > I tried cd /usr/ports/mail/evolution && make deinstall && make
> > reinstall, to see if something had simply gone wrong during the build,
> > but nothing changed.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> An random idea:  What scheduler are you using in your kernel
> configuration?  Do you already use  SCHED_ULE  ?
> 

I built it according to defaults, so I've got the GENERIC kernel running
right now. As such, I don't know the answer to your question, but if you
tell me how to check I'll get back to you :)

James