[MlMt] spinning beachball of death

[Steven M. Bellovin]

Do you have any very large mailboxes? That was causing serious 
performance problems for me after I upgraded to High Sierra. Starting 
with some code I found online, I developed a Python script to split 
mailboxes by month or year; that solved my problems.


On 11 Jan 2018, at 7:18, James Galvin wrote:

> Thanks for this.  It was an interesting read.  I do not use htop and, 
> at least for the moment, MailMate is the only application that 
> “freezes”.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On 10 Jan 2018, at 11:22, Tobias Kirchhofer wrote:
>
>> On 10 Jan 2018, at 15:42, James Galvin wrote:
>>
>>> In the past 60 minutes (and yes I mean 60 minutes) I have “FORCE 
>>> QUIT” MailMate more than 10 times because it got to the 
>>> “spinning beachball of death”.
>>
>> I had this too, has driven me mad. Tried a lot of things which 
>> changed the behavior a bit but it still persisted.
>>
>> Then i found this:
>>
>> https://www.modmy.com/terminal-applications-causing-freezes-macos-high-sierra
>>
>> Which referenced this:
>>
>> https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682
>>
>> Valuable to read the whole thread until end.
>>
>> It might be in your case that you use htop?
>>
>> I removed htop with brew and trouble went away. Totally.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> Tobias
>>
>> There was a threads with my case (sorry for dumb subject):
>> „[MlMt] [Solved] MailMate and High Sierra Freeze [was: Re: Slow 
>> since HIgh Sierra upgrade?]“
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Tobias Kirchhofer
>> tobias at kirchhofer.net
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         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb