Opera 10.10 on PII 233Mhz uses 90-96% CPU for days when starting up
Steinar Bang
233, currently running debian lenny (installed as potato and upgraded
from there) to 10.10.
That seemed to work fine, until I clicked "OK" on the question that kept
popping up about converting messages and feeds to the new format. Then
it converted some 26 or 27000 messages. Then I stopped it, and started
it again... the opera window never appeared.
When I look at top it seems to be using from 90% to 96% of the CPU, but
it doesn't use much IO or memory. However I've left it for two days
now, and the window still hasn't appeared and it's still using that much
CPU.
So the question is: is it likely that it will ever complete? Or will it
never complete on this machine, and I should just zap all of the message
and feed configs and start fresh?
The question is then: how do I do that? Zap the ~/.opera directory and
start fresh? Or could I be more selective? Is there an option that
would let me start opera and remove the feeds? Or are there some
specific files under the ~/.opera directory I could remove?
Thanx!
- Steinar
Remco Lanting
You can rename ~/.opera/mail after which you can import from that
directory through File -> Import and export -> Import mail -> Import from
Opera 7/8/9/10. Importing is not needed of course and since I have no idea
how much time it will take I'm inclined to suggest to just do without the
old messages if you can. Keep the backup around since you can always
import it on a different computer. Setting up the mail dir on another
computer where more power is available, and then copying it back would be
a good alternative.
If you feel up for it, you can remove specific accounts from the mail dir
too. For that you'll need to edit the config files in there, but it's very
easy to break and there is a good chance that you'll see accesspoints in
the mail panel that don't work anymore or show the wrong messages. That
can be fixed, but it requires reindexing all messages and I think that is
exactly where Opera is 'hanging' for you.
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Remco Lanting
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Steinar Bang
> You can rename ~/.opera/mail after which you can import from that
> directory through File -> Import and export -> Import mail -> Import
> from Opera 7/8/9/10. Importing is not needed of course and since I
> have no idea how much time it will take I'm inclined to suggest to
> just do without the old messages if you can.
Yup, that's what I did. Just an rm -rf ~/.opera/mail and freed up 170MB
of stuff. And opera started up without a hitch. Thanx!
> Keep the backup around since you can always import it on a different
> computer. Setting up the mail dir on another computer where more power
> is available, and then copying it back would be a good alternative.
Thanx for the tip. But this was old stuff I couldn't remember what
was. I haven't tried reading email with opera on that machine for at
least 5 years or so...
Thanx again!
- Steinar