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#1 2007-10-19 16:29:34
Mail deletion: what a pain!
Hello there,
one of the things which still prevent me from using Connector as my full time collaboration suite is that its performances are really poor... I wonder whether that's true for all users or is made somehow worse by network latency (I'm in Italy) or my computer setup (I'm on firefox v2.0.0.8 on XP).
Example: whenever I delete a message it takes Connector almost 7 seconds to complete the operation (after my confirmation). It "scales" linearly: 10 messages require 70 seconds (!!!) to be deleted during which firefox takes 100% CPU and displays at least a couple of messages claiming that the script isn't responding and could be stopped (the script goes on no matter what I instruct it to do).
Is there something weird with my hw/sw/net combination or are you experiencing the same?
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#5 2007-10-26 12:08:22
Re: Mail deletion: what a pain!
dolom wrote:
I find it surprising though that people didn't mention it before...
I don't delete very much email, and certainly not more than 2 or 3 at at time.
Mark
Live in the city, work in the country. | OpenSolaris Immigrant
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#6 2007-10-26 14:18:37
Re: Mail deletion: what a pain!
dolom wrote:
... I wonder whether users are accessing it through IMAP more than Connector.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm almost exclusively an IMAP user. I also use the connector for file transfer and back up, but only through sftpDrive. I only log in to the connector these days to see if things have been fixed. At the moment, for my browser of choice (Opera), they're not.
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#7 2007-10-27 03:30:19
Re: Mail deletion: what a pain!
I know that it sounds crazy, but I don't own a computer of my own. I have a work laptop that I'm not allowed to install software on, and a mobile device. I've completely moved into the Connector. My location determines what interface I use. The GUI while at work or in class, and IMAP (via mobile) while on the go, which is all the time these days. I'm happy with both.
I did notice a slow down in mail deletion through the Connector, but it wasn't a deal breaker. Like madams, I don't delete more than a few messages at a time. Mail doesn't pile up on me anymore since I've gone mobile. I administer my Inbox when I have a break in the action: waiting for haircut, in between classes, sitting in a cafe, whenever.
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#8 2007-12-13 23:39:45
Re: Mail deletion: what a pain!
This problem is clearly still here. I am finding a lapse of 20 seconds and more to delete an email. Sometimes, it just ignores my request and I'll sit there for minutes without any response and I have to forcefully shut down the software. I recently switched from Textdrive email to Connector and I'm starting to regret it. I switched from Textdrive because TD gives you 16 connections per IP address and that is insufficient for our firm (five or more people online at a time). But better that than these impossibly slow responses.
Is there anything ya'll at Joyent can do to speed it up . . . or anything we can do here at home to address this?
-Micah
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#9 2008-01-24 08:33:52
Re: Mail deletion: what a pain!
I've noticed something interesting: deletion time seems to be strongly related to the size of the folder. Specifically, I had accumulated hundred of messages in my INBOX which I couldn't handle by Connector so I connected to it by an IMAP client (Pine) and cleaned them with it and all of a sudden deletion of new messages became very fast: a couple of seconds at most (I didn't count) to delete 10 messages.
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#10 2008-01-24 11:30:16
- Boogenstein
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Re: Mail deletion: what a pain!
I find that when deleting multiple emails it is so slow that it nearly always crashes Firefox.
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#11 2008-01-25 15:38:11
Re: Mail deletion: what a pain!
How many messages do you have in your Inbox and Trash folders? As I said, after emptying both of them by IMAP performances started to be good (and I'm connecting from Italy, supposedly with a much higher latency compared to yours).
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