A couple of annoying F8t3 things

[John Summerfield]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 16:22 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:

>>> it is blocking a long time on /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX and compare startup
>>> time of apps before after after deleting /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX
>> What I was wondering is what size* box is Rodd using, and might 
>> Evolution 's pauses be while it's saving the work file? Seamonkey does 
>> that on SL5 (Tikanga-clone), and loses keystrokes. It bugs me.
> 
> There's always a pause just after sending an email (with something down
> in the status bar that is like saving file)  When I'm in compose I don't
> see anything showing in the status bar, but it might be the compose
> window saving the message in case of a crash (so it can offer it up when
> you restart).
> 
>> CPU, RAM, disk  disk speed as measured by "hdparm -t /dev/sda"
> 
> Centrino 2.0GHz
> 1 Gig RAM
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# hdparm -t /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  118 MB in  3.02 seconds =  39.09 MB/sec

Okay, that should be reasonably quick.

A pause at send time suggests a DNS lookup's timing out. Could be your 
end, could be the server's.

What's in your /etc/resolve.conf ?

Do you control the mail server?



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