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That reference says "slowness is really only an issue for power users of the service — those with hundreds of thousands or even millions of messages."

I only have 50K messages at a little over 4GB. People are saying they have inboxes as full as mine and are still fast.

Something doesn't add up. Is my account on an old infrastructure?

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I have 7.1GB, it's still beyond fast. Size isn't a sufficient condition for whatever problem it is you are seeing. The only time I had a problem was before I abandoned greasemonkey.

Which operations are slow for you?

Everything is slow. Sending mail, switching labels, searching, even clicking settings or the home icon. I've tried across lots of browsers and computers. It's related to the account. Other, much smaller and newer accounts are fast.

My personal account is using only 648mb and speed has been horrid lately. Most of the time the slowness is in returning back to the inbox. If I get the "Loading" text at the top, it will take ~10 seconds these days.

Fast and slow is subjective. You might be talking about responsiveness of the UI, or a specific feature like search, and someone else might be used to a faster UI, or a faster search.

Click send and stare at a modal still working... for 30sec. This is not subjective.

A computer is fast when the computer is waiting on you. A computer is slow when you are waiting on the computer.

> Is my account on an old infrastructure?

I'm starting to wonder about that too - I've discussed this with a bunch of people recently, and those of us who are seeing the really awful performance (>30 second wait times for basic operations like sending a mail) seem to be mainly early adopters.

Personally, I'm using Google Apps "Premiere" which I initially purchased about a month after launch.

Are all 50k messages still in your inbox, or have you archived most of them?

All archived. I keep my inbox clean.

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