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On Friday, March 3, 2006, at 04:30 PM, Olaf Drümmer wrote: > Hi, > > once in a while I was having the problem with PowerMail that all of a > sudden clicking through emails in the Recent Mails window (and probably > in any other mail browser window) became very slooooooooow - PowerMail > needed up to 10 seconds to display the text of the email I just > selected. > > > Throughout the last months I tried to observe the circumstances that > led > to this issue. My guess is it has something to do with using the "Show > HTML" command for a mail that is HTML formatted. Nevertheless, it > doesn't happen all of the time, just relatively rarely. > > Anyway. > > I watched processor usage and it went up to about 80% - just for > displaying plain text. Strange. I then figured out that about 60% was > used by PowerMail, and 20% by "ATSServer" (I am guessing this means > Apple Text Services Server). > > I thought, even the 20% for the ATSServer is way too much for something > as simple as formatting text. Thus I decided to open Activity Monitor > and just quit that process (and it just did quit). > > Guess what: > On selecting the next mail, speed was back to normal (and PowerMail > seems to have implicitly just launched ATSServer again). > > Whatever the actual reason for all this is I believe CTMdev should > address it. Maybe others who experience the extreme slowdown could just > try the same and let me know whether that also fixes the issue for > them. > > Olaf Druemmer > > PS: My setup is Mac OS/X 10.4.2 on a PowerBook 15" 1.67 GHz 2 GB RAM > (nearly always several 100 MB free) 100GB HD (5 - 10 GB free) using > PowerMail 5.2.1 build 4397. > > > >
