On 01/01/2020 08:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Thunderbird is the single app most hungry in my system this minute. More than 1 GB, 10 accounts. I have no idea of the folder count. The local dovecot account has a lot of them.
yesnomaybe. At startup Dolphin is the worst since it is already rendering so many f those miniaturized images. As times goes on, Firefox gets to be the main consumer, again rendering, rendering. Thunderbird has a lot of accounts and lot of folders and yes there is dovecot managing close on 5G of files ... but 'rendering'? If I were dealing to an extent with HTML mail that had to be rendered graphically, you might have a point. *ALL* the lists I subscribe to I have configured to send plain text mail, just like this one. What is interesting is that what's in the SPAM folder, and rightly so, it *IS* spam, is very often HTML. http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml https://old.efn.no/html-bad.html https://www.wired.com/2001/02/friends-dont-e-mail-friends-html/ https://fcw.com/articles/2006/12/22/dod-bars-use-of-html-email-outlook-web-a... I don't want to appear absolute about that matter, sometimes it is necessary. But lets face it, it is graphical browsing using Firefox that does all the rendering, and that is as it should be. It's not the HTML that's difficult, it's rendering the result as a pixel array. I'm sure you could, I'm sure people have, designed an instruction set suited for rendering, but a general purpose computer is just that. it has to compute and calculate and dish up files and deal with character strings and parse, parse, parse. Which is why, comparatively speaking, rendering is both CPU and memory intensive. And heck, the X engine has enough of that already. You want efficient, lexical instruction set efficiency? Don't run X. Use all the text-mode tools, regress to UNIX of the 1970s when were are running 40 users on a PDP-11, doing edit, compile cycles. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org