After I log in, my laptop takes a really long time to load. Watching top, it seems like one thing that is using a ton of juice is Liferea. I do want it to sync my feeds, but I'm wondering if there's a good way to throttle it so that it doesn't use more memory than I have to spare.
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If the problem primarily happens during login, one option is to delay Liferea until the rest of the login processes have quieted down:
If the problem is solely due to CPU usage, consider running Lifearea under cpulimit:
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It would be better to start liferea manually, instead of starting it with the system, that way it won't put a drag on the system.
You can also set Liferea to only load feeds manually as opposed to automatically updating (in the preferences).
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I would really like to have it start automatically, actually. – Amanda Apr 22 '11 at 18:47
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@Amanda: then you will have to live with the drag it gives you :) (Liferea is pretty heavy). – RolandiXor Apr 22 '11 at 21:08
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I still don't like this solution, but after some tinkering I've settled on a single script to launch a handful of things (Liferea, gPodder, some messaging clients and Conky which gets all fussy if it loads too soon). I run it manually after I log in. – Amanda Apr 28 '11 at 23:33