Close to a month now, have been working on squeezing Connector to save some time while it loads the folders. Remember Chapter-1 of my Evolution Exchange Performance Series blog - Yes, I based my optimization work from it. In the attached image, as you can see most of the folder loading time is spent in camel_exchange_folder_construct(). Construction of exchange folder objects does two major things:
- Scanning the entire folder for any changes since last evolution session and
- Fetch messages to keep things in sync
These two operations contributed to a big level in connector folder loading time. Fix doesn't refresh if summary is available and scanning for changes, since last evolution session, is moved to a separate thread with appropriate threading-etiquettes.
Here comes the supporting fact for my blog: :)
(2.11.x timing may vary depending upon production servers - response from my test servers are quite quick)
With this fix, Exchange Connector catches up with Microsoft Outlook w.r.t folder loading time. Outlook users will love Evolution 2.11.5 - watch out for more performance hacks. This fixes 442186, part of 341214 and 421091.
