Subject: Re: Eudora
From: Vincent Bumgarner (vbumgarn@uu.net)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 15:33:12 MDT
The machine has 128 megs of RAM, I've set MOL to 64 megs, and yes,
the mail files are quite large. I'll wean myself off of the Mac
eventually.
-Vincent
At 2:14 PM -0400 4/13/00, Bhagwati P Gupta wrote:
>I have been using Eudora on MOL and have not seen anything like
>that. Could that be due to very large mail folders? On linux, I have
>been using Netscape Mail application. It 's great and runs perfect.
>In fact, I have now pretty much stopped using Eudora!
>
>The memory problem may occur if your RAM+swap is small. I used to
>have similar problem earlier but with Netscape. Now I have 160MB RAM
>and 102MB swap and linux never slows down or complains.
>
>one more thing....make sure you assign enough ram for MOL. I have 64MB.
>
>Hope this helps.
>Bhagwati
>
>
>Vincent Bumgarner wrote:
>
>>I've recently been having some strange behavior. The only thing I've
>>been running on the Mac side is Eudora, as I've yet to get Kerberos
>>running on the linux side, etc., etc.
>>
>>Anyway, the memory footprint of MOL continues to grow throughout the
>>day until I'm out of swap. I have to reboot to get it all back, and
>>log out of X to get enough memory back to relaunch MOL.
>>
>>Another interesting thing with Eudora: when it hits its mail files to
>>do cleanup, or at least that's what I think it's doing, the disk just
>>goes insane, and everything slows to a crawl for quite some time. A
>>few of my mail folders are roughly 30 meg. I'll clean them up one of
>>these days...
>>
>>Thought you'd want to know.
>>
>>On a side note: would anyone recommend a good E-mail client on the
>>linux side? I'm not going back to pine :)
>>
>>-Vincent
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