Re: [gentoo-user] kde-apps/kde-l10n-16.04.3:5/5::gentoo conflicting with kde-apps/kdepim-l10n-15.12.3:5/5::gentoo

[james <garftd@verizon.net>]

On 08/09/2016 07:42 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Monday, August 08, 2016 10:45:09 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 08/08/2016 19:20, Michael Mol wrote:
>>> On Monday, August 08, 2016 06:52:15 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>> On 08/08/2016 17:02, Michael Mol wrote:

>>> snip <<<
>> KMail is the lost child of KDE for many months now, I reckon this
>> situation is just going to get worse and worse. I know for myself my
>> mail problems ceased the day I dumped KMail4 for claws and/or thunderbird
>
> That's really, really sad.
>
> I used Thunderbird for years, but I eventually had to stop when it would,
> averaging once a month (though sometimes not for a couple months, sometimes a
> couple times a week) explode in memory consumption and drive the entire system
> unresponsively into swap.
>
> I've tried claws from time to time due to other annoyances with Thunderbird,
> but I kept switching back. Not because I liked Tbird, but (IIRC) because of
> stability issues I had with claws.
>
> Even with the bugs it has, Kontact and Akonadi has been the most reliable mail
> client I've used in the last year. When it gives me problems, I know why, and
> I can address it. (Running a heavily tuned MySQLd instance behind Akonadi, for
> example...)
>
> I wish someone would pay me to fix this stuff; I'd be able to spend the time on
> it.

Perhaps an experiment. Locate some folks that know about how to promote 
'crowd funding'. The propose a project like this, targeted at business 
and user, to all pitch in. In fact, quite a few beloved open source 
projects could benefit, if the idea of crowd funding took hold
on open source soft. Perhaps one of the foundations deeply involved in 
the open source movement would get behind the idea?

KDE is very popular, so the concept or something similar might just have 
legs, even if it only funds a series of grad-students or young 
programmers to maintain good FOSS projects?

AS a side note, I put 32G of ram on my system and still at times it is 
laggy with little processor load and htop shows little <30% ram usage.
What tools do you use to track down mem. management issues?

Any specific kernel tweaks?


hth,
James



hth,
James