Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:32:49 +0900 From: Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is your Thunderbird OK? Message-ID: <1190637169.2907.10.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <20070924134432.6ae08d5e@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> References: <1190618389.1658.7.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> <20070924134432.6ae08d5e@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>
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On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:44 +0200, cpghost wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:19:49 +0900 > Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > Just been wondering about this for long weeks. I have some complain > > Thudnerbird's the speed when it start up on FreeBSD. Its speed is very > > slow. While thunderbird start up, I go to brew coffee. Aside from > > that, Thunderbird is the best MUA, indeed. > > Thunderbird runs just fine here, but I've switched to > claws-mail a while ago because I'm running on very slow > hardware (500 MHz VIA C3/Eden), where Thunderbird really > crawls at a snail's pace (Firefox too, of course). Yet > even then, it doesn't take proportionally very long to > start up. > > Thunderbird (and Firefox) are just big resource hogs, that's > all. If you experience VERY long start up times, you have > another problem. I once had startup issues on a diskless setup, > and it turned out to be a weird problem involving gconf2, > threading and lockd. It went away after I disabled NFS again > and used real disk storage. Well, I cannot understand your advice because I'm newbie about Unix-like system. Actually I want to use the claws-mail someday. Thanks anyway! Byung-Hee
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