2013/8/9 waldo kitty <[email protected]> > On 8/7/2013 16:45, Juha Manninen wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:18 PM, waldo kitty<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> as noted upstream in this thread... >>> >>> w2k-SP4 with all available updates >>> AMD Athlon XP 2800+ >>> 768M RAM >>> >>> and the HD is a WDC WD300BB (at this time)... >>> >> >> Yes sorry. >> Strange, AMD Athlon XP 2800+ should not be so terribly slow. >> Something slows things down in your machine. >> > > after some investigation and time spent archiving, it seems that > thunderbird with some 40000+ messages in this lazarus folder plus having > firefox open were causing my system to consume too much memory and thus > using swap... especially when i would open lazarus to do some coding or > checking things out from posts in here... after archiving, it seems to have > cut down on the amount of memory used so we'll see what happens now... >
OT, I have found that TB archives are unreliable with large volumes. Not that mails disappear (at least not that I know), but quick search tends to not find all the mails it should. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org
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