One Slow App

Robin

One of my favorite things about GhostBSD is how applications launch almost instantly when I click on their launcher in the Xfce panel. Every app but one: Evolution. If I launch it from the terminal, same thing: It takes a full 12 seconds to launch.

It works just fine once it finally launches, and it's hardly any real problem, just a curiosity: Why is Evolution slower to launch now than all other applications since the last update?

I do not require a solution, really, but if Evolution is calling up some library or whatever that takes more time, I'd like to know how to speed it up.

Thanks so much!

vimanuelt

Robin
evolution --disable-plugins
See if it's faster that way.

Robin

I got "unknown command" in the terminal, but disabled the plugins in the app. It's 8 seconds instead of 12 seconds now, so it's an improvement! Curious.

vimanuelt

The command is evolution --disable-eplugin.

Robin

Then I must do that every time I open the app? That command opened the app very quickly, but when I went to close the terminal it says, "a process is still running. Closing the terminal will kill it." So I closed Evolution, then the terminal.

Clicking on the Evolution icon in my panel again, still slow to launch. Repeating the command launches Evolution - in 8 seconds.

Very strange, and reproducable if need be. But not worth the trouble of fixing anything. More of a curiosity and a minor nuicance if I'm in a hurry (which is rare).

ghoster

Robin I think you can also change the command in the menu.
If you right-click on the menu, Select "Modify menu", then search the evolution command and click "properties" button.
You can add the "--disable-eplugin" command as in the image below.
REMEMBER: if you change the command in the menu, evolution will always start with plugins disabled

Robin

That worked well! Down to six-seconds now. There must be something else to do still, as all other apps launch in an instant. It just makes me wonder if the old Geary issue might be related... gcr and gcr3 both installed, but removing either one takes a whole bunch of other stuff with it - Xfce desktop, Evolution, etc. Very strange.

vimanuelt

Robin You can submit a feature request to have Evolution compiled with better optimization.
ghostbsd/issuesissues/new?assignees=&labels=feature&template=feature_request.yaml

An example:
CFLAGS+= -O3 -pipe -march=native
CXXFLAGS+= -O3 -pipe -march=native
MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=12
MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT=12
WITH_CCACHE_BUILD=yes

As an aside, you may want to review the Evolution make config settings to see whether the settings meet your needs. You can do this:

sudo -i
pkg install ports
cd /usr/ports/mail/evolution
make config

Here is what you will find.

If there is another option that you need enabled, submit a feature request.
ghostbsd/issuesissues/new?assignees=&labels=feature&template=feature_request.yaml

If you do not want to submit feature requests, you can manually managed the Evolution build yourself by using GhostBSD ports. You would need to rebuild Evolution each time there is a change to Evolution sources.

sudo -i
pkg install \-g 'GhostBSD\*-dev'
pkg install ports
cd /usr/ports/mail/evolution
make config
env CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native" make install clean