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