Modern software tends to litter its environment to the point of getting mired. Progress.
I periodically unsubscribe from sluggish newsgroups, terminate thunderbird, delete all files associated with the group in .thunderbird/<hash>.default/News/<server>, then resubscribe and mark everything as read. That cures the sluggishness.
Maybe there are better ways, I dont't know.
Jeroen Belleman
I haven't noticed, but my setup is peculiar.
Using Linux, I have a local usenet proxy server, "leafnode" that does all the storage. Thunderbird is set to cache only metadata, not message contents. The caveat is I can not do content search.
For instance, on this group TB says I have 95961 unread posts.
Hmm. It's a good idea for many things.
The problem is that scalable algorithms can be far more complex than quick algorithms, so guess which usually win?
Slowness and instability are often caused by memory leaks as well.
In the realtime world, we find that many things are best implemented as a bidirectional linked-list block FIFO, with access to both ends. This architecture has O[1] scaling, right down to the last block, which allows graceful behavior even when overloaded.
Joe
I'm going to try and get her to come round to mine- she's not far away but not in good health right now. Side by side, I should be able to sort her out...
I use e.s. and Agent. Seems to work fine.
yes. exciting. I only have a complex desktop PC setup, but I think she has a laptop she could bring round...
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