Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Dirk Munk wrote:
I haven't mentioned stability until now, but with these settings
Seamonkey hasn't crashed these last days, and it used to do that once
or twice per day.
You may not have used the word "stability" in the bodies of your
messages, but when you put "stability" in the subject line and "crash"
in the body it's clearly what you're talking about.
My experience with SM has been different in that it has crashed only a
couple of times a year, usually for nonreproducible reasons. By
"crash" I mean "terminated without authorization," not "stopped
producing output and accepting user input," which has been happening
several times a day. I call that "hanging," because the program is
still running according to Windows Task Manager (which usually reports
"Not Responding"), and resumes normal operation after two to five
minutes. At those times, if I keep demanding a response with mouse
clicks, Windows will prompt me to wait or close the unresponsive
program. If I choose to wait, SM will eventually revive. Once it does,
a normal shutdown and restart of the program (including automatic
clearing of cache and cookies) will clean out the crud and allow it to
perform well for a while.
Since I increased the allowed memory cache size about a week ago, the
hangs have decreased drastically in frequency, but have not been
entirely eliminated. If I really push it, I can still get it to hang
occasionally. But it's a lot more pleasant to run.
For other users, I suspect some sources of hangs and crashes are
related to badly written ad scripts, but my ad blocker takes care of
most of those. And of course if I choose to walk on the sketchier side
of the Internet, it's easy to find sites that will serve malware and
obnoxious popups insisting that I need to install their anti-malware
programs. (Right. I was born yesterday. Well, I guess "there's one
born every minute.") But none of that is SeaMonkey's fault, and a
decent internet security program will take care of that.
Why don't you try all the other settings as well, and see what happens.
The network cache settings dramatically reduced CPU cycles, and
disabling the disk cache made Seamonkey much faster.
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