Re: [gentoo-user] kde-apps/kde-l10n-16.04.3:5/5::gentoo conflicting with kde-apps/kdepim-l10n-15.12.3:5/5::gentoo

[J. Roeleveld]

On August 9, 2016 4:13:31 PM GMT+02:00, james <garftd@×××××××.net> wrote:
>On 08/09/2016 07:42 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Monday, August 08, 2016 10:45:09 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 08/08/2016 19:20, Michael Mol wrote:
>>>> On Monday, August 08, 2016 06:52:15 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>>> On 08/08/2016 17:02, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>>>> snip <<<
>>> KMail is the lost child of KDE for many months now, I reckon this
>>> situation is just going to get worse and worse. I know for myself my
>>> mail problems ceased the day I dumped KMail4 for claws and/or
>thunderbird
>>
>> That's really, really sad.
>>
>> I used Thunderbird for years, but I eventually had to stop when it
>would,
>> averaging once a month (though sometimes not for a couple months,
>sometimes a
>> couple times a week) explode in memory consumption and drive the
>entire system
>> unresponsively into swap.
>>
>> I've tried claws from time to time due to other annoyances with
>Thunderbird,
>> but I kept switching back. Not because I liked Tbird, but (IIRC)
>because of
>> stability issues I had with claws.
>>
>> Even with the bugs it has, Kontact and Akonadi has been the most
>reliable mail
>> client I've used in the last year. When it gives me problems, I know
>why, and
>> I can address it. (Running a heavily tuned MySQLd instance behind
>Akonadi, for
>> example...)
>>
>> I wish someone would pay me to fix this stuff; I'd be able to spend
>the time on
>> it.
>
>Perhaps an experiment. Locate some folks that know about how to promote
>
>'crowd funding'. The propose a project like this, targeted at business
>and user, to all pitch in. In fact, quite a few beloved open source
>projects could benefit, if the idea of crowd funding took hold
>on open source soft. Perhaps one of the foundations deeply involved in
>the open source movement would get behind the idea?
>
>KDE is very popular, so the concept or something similar might just
>have
>legs, even if it only funds a series of grad-students or young
>programmers to maintain good FOSS projects?
>
>AS a side note, I put 32G of ram on my system and still at times it is
>laggy with little processor load and htop shows little <30% ram usage.
>What tools do you use to track down mem. management issues?
>
>Any specific kernel tweaks?
>
>
>hth,
>James
>
>
>
>hth,
>James

Try iotop....

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