Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Mac OS update (10.13.5) - Apple Mail Slowdown Date: 11 Jun 2018 03:51:10 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net Xk8KeFZ9Jd+MnCTVoKX2bQAqTjJIUmILA5kQmE/jEprP1+1POk Cancel-Lock: sha1:wjUH6M7ZSpjiKD4cfvNXL0Hmsb4= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:42923 On 2018-06-10, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2018-06-10 17:46, Jolly Roger wrote: >> On 2018-06-10, Alan Browne wrote: >>> >>> Updated 10.13.5 yesterday on this iMac. >>> >>> Everything else is fine (AFAICT), but Apple Mail has a peculiar bug: >>> >>> When I compose an e-mail, text entered in the body area has a terrible >>> lag of about 2 seconds per character typed. (Entering To: and subject >>> fields is no issue). >>> >>> I've re-started Mail, but that hasn't improved it. Workaround at >>> present is to compose in text and copy/paste that when ready. >>> >>> I'll re-boot later and see how that goes. >> >> Anything in the console or system logs? Anything jump out in Activity >> Monitor? > > I indeed should look there first. CPU's were very unloaded. Memory is > 14 GB free (of 24). > > All of a sudden the "slowdown" had gone away. It was persistent for > about half an hour. > > Just got yelled at to fire up the charcoal, so I'll try to look at the > logs tomorrow. Oh come on. They'll be burnt to a crisp by then, man! -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR