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Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird
Date	2017-05-23 00:17 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Jon Elson wrote:
> rickman wrote:
>
>>
>> Have you tried SeaMonkey?  I don't know if T-bird will import settings
>> from SeaMonkey, do you?  I also don't know if it will work any better
>> than it did before.  I've put off switching for sometime.  T-bird has
>> been a PITA for months because it has delays for not apparent reason.
>>
> This is a known problem.  Thunderbird does sorts on the messages in memory,
> and with large newsgroups, that can overflow and cause thrashing to disk.
> For that reason, I switched to knode for newsgroups.  I still use
> Thunderbird for email, it works fine for that.

The funny thing is when I see T-bird freeze up I don't see any abnormal 
activity either on the disk, CPU or networking.  I would expect this to 
show up on resource monitor.

I am seeing small delays in SeaMonkey.  But with T-bird it would freeze 
for so long I would go play Sudoku or go get something to drink.

-- 

Rick C

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SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 15:53 -0400
  Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-22 17:53 -0700
    Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-22 18:42 -0700
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-22 18:56 -0700
    Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 23:19 -0400
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2017-05-22 23:14 -0500
        Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 00:17 -0400
          Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2017-05-23 14:15 -0500
  Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-14 09:01 -0400
    Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 10:37 -0400
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-14 11:54 -0400
        Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 14:47 -0400
          Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Bert Hickman <bert-hickman@comcast.net> - 2017-07-14 15:25 -0500
            Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-07-14 21:34 +0100
            Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 16:51 -0400
          Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-14 16:25 -0400
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2017-07-14 22:58 +0000

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