On 2014-01-10 16:34, Philippe Andersson wrote:
I noticed a similar behaviour here: when I run "compact" on my inbox folder in Thunderbird (800 MB on an MS Exchange server over IMAP), my laptop is also heavily impacted by it (very perceptible sluggishness during the whole operation, complete "freeze" for a couple seconds at the end of it).
This under OpenSuSE 12.3 running on a Thinkpad T530 with 4GB RAM (but with the NIC operating at only 100 Mbps -- perhaps this plays a role).
On the contrary, it should ease the load. As the network can not transmit as much data as a hard disk can, it means that the CPU has far less data to move than it is in fact capable of. Ok, it is a very rough comparison, but IMO, that operation should not tax a client computer at all. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)