On 2021-08-26 09:32, James Knott wrote:
I use Seamonkey for email and I've noticed it's sometimes very sluggish when I press a key or move the mouse. It someties takes several seconds to respond. If I kill & restart it, it works OK for a while. Other apps don't seem to have the problem.
Anyone else seen this?
yes and no. Not with Seamonkey but with other applications. I've given up on Firefox for that reason, turned to Chromium. it seems that for some reason Firefox places a high demand on swap. I took to running "vmstat -SM -a 15" as root in an xterm and saw swap grow and grow and grow even when I was doing nothing. Firefox, or one of the plugings, seems to have a memory leak. Yes I've tried disabling plugins but not found the leak. Perhaps it is Seamonkey; perhaps it is about rendering HTML, perhaps ..., perhaps it's some other application you are running and Seamonkey is the one that suffers, Seamonkey is not the cause. You really haven't given us a lot of context about your setup, environment. So you're running KDE. Does this happen with any other desktop? -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg