[Users] Claws freezing when composing e-mail replies

[Dave Howorth]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:14:31 -0400
<edwardp at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:34:02 +0100
> Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I use LXDE and haven't had problems with it. I've had the occasional
> > freeze problem with claws and clicking on the X widget has always
> > killed it eventually. Sometimes the entire system seems to lock up
> > for a few minutes, but that's more related to Firefox usage I
> > think, and is caused by recent kernels' behaviour with limited
> > memory I suspect.  
> 
> Now that you mention it, when Claws was freezing, I also had Firefox
> running at the same time.
> 
> In addition to Firefox, I also have Chromium (as chromium-freeworld
> from RPM Fusion), Google Chrome, Vivaldi and Opera installed.
> 
> I'm tempted to re-enable the auto-saving of Drafts and launch one of
> the other browsers, just to see if I get any additional freezes. When
> I ran 'top' to check the CPU usage with Firefox running and while
> Claws froze, I noticed a small portion of the swap partition (less
> than 10Mb) was being used.

I don't think that will show anything. I think Paul's diagnosis of your
problem is probably correct and it's due to an entirely different cause
from the ones I have seen and the entirely separate system lock ups
I've seen.