System is Win98se on a 500Mhz Pentium 3 with ~760Mb of memory. I just last week updated to from SM 1.0.7 to 1.1.14. and newsreader performance has degraded abysmally! Watching the behaviour with the system performance monitor, I notice that system memory almost invariably gets 100% allocated, even over allocated, with unused physical memory being depleted down to under 1Mb !!!. Everything slows down to a crawl. When I connect to a news server, the system goes through a slow cycle of checking each of the subscribed news groups for new messages. For newsgroups.bellsouth.net. this is done in very bursty mode. i.e. check 2-5 groups pause, with the pauses sometimes being 10-15 sec long and even longer. In the meantime the system stops reacting to any commands, such as to switch windows/processes. When I switch newsgroups cpu goes 100% busy sometimes for several minutes and the disk drive light sometimes goes wild.
(By the way, I have! shut off! Java in my profile as per a report by MR Zeitz that setting Java on will kill newsreader performance. See Re: Enabling Java makes mail and news sluggish, posted on 2/2/2009 Message-ID: <[email protected]> in the news group netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey) -- Rostyk _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
