Gabriel wrote:
Hi, I'm opening a new thread about a previous topic cause this is for
the 2.53 release on macOS:
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53
Build identifier: 20190329130005
[ ... ]
What is causing the annoying "colored rotating wheel" for about
30/60 seconds it's apparently a news server I added for all the NGs
I'm following (about 20, with low volumes of messages):
ssl-eu.astraweb.com I'm pretty sure of this because SM doesn't hang
so much when I'm only browsing websites or using
> my several IMAP accounts.
Even if I select all the option in the "Free Memory" panel nothing changes.
Can you suggest something to ameliorate the SM behaviour? Or is it the
2.57 version better?
I'm still running 2.49.4, and I've never really dug into trying to play
with memory management at this level.
However, I do find occasional problems with high memory usage, slow
performance and hung wait cursor. The place where I most often see that
happen is at the beginning of the day, if I've left Seamonkey open
overnight. In my setup, I run quite a few extensions, and I think some
of them have issues with memory leaks. Thus, when I examine with the
Windows Task Manager, and I see Seamonkey with high memory usage,
frequent bursts of CPU use, high accumulated CPU time, and near constant
changes to Working Set Delta, my assumption is that there's some script
that has gone awry (probably related to an extension).
In that situation, the fastest solution is simply a restart of
Seamonkey. Something that I could do is see how things behave with
running in Safe Mode, or disabling extensions one by one, until I can
identify the one that's misbehaving.
For you, even if you're apparently seeing symptoms when you're accessing
a particular news server, it's not impossible that it's a browser
extension that could be causing problems. That's one of the things that
you get with Seamonkey's integration is that with mail/news and browser
integration, a problem in one area can affect the other.
If it really is a news server that's giving you problems, you might try
to see if there's other servers that you can get your newsgroups from.
If you just need Usenet, consider a different provider, such as
eternal-september or AIOE. Of course, that won't help you with any
newsgroups that are specific to your current server.
One other issue could be that there's something that's specific to your
user profile. I'm more accustomed to dealing with this for web issues,
but it's not impossible that there could be profile issues with
mail/news. You might want to try to see what happens when you create a
new profile for just that news server (and then try adding additional
servers).
Although I don't have experience with any releases of Seamonkey beyond
2.49.4, I'm inclined to believe that you won't see any difference in
handling with 2.53 or 2.57 on that same profile (and remember that
profiles are no longer backward compatible -- thus, if you go to 2.57,
you won't be able to go back to 2.53, unless you have a backup of you
2.53 profile that you can also revert to).
Smith
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