[PLUG-TALK] Thunderbird delays
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Mar 14 18:52:30 UTC 2018
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I stay logged in.
Dick,
When you're done working for the day I highly recommend logging out. Not
shutting down the machine, just logging out of your user account. Over night
logs rotate, /etc/cron.daily runs its scripts, and a lot of housekeeping is
done. The few times I've forgotten to log out (usually because I've left a
long compilation running or I intended to come back but didn't) the backup
of my /home partition is not done properly because mail and log reports
arrive and the backup requires a steady state. You can also set firefox (and
perhaps thunderbird) to clear their caches when you log out.
When you log back in the next day you have cleared all cruft and start
fresh.
> Could be. I've taken to shutting down Firefox once a day, if I remember to
> do it. I use it enough to check spellings of names of people and places
> that I leave it loaded all the time.
Logging out does this for you and it provides other benefits without any
drawbacks.
Best regards,
Rich
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