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November 07, 2007

Adiumache

I’m just not going to upgrade Adium again for a long time. After the last time, I threw out my whole Keychain and started fresh, which solved the slowdown I experienced when I last upgraded (though it meant re-entering all my passwords). Yesterday the “upgrade” option popped up again, and like a good doobee I hit the “upgrade and install” button.

Blammo! The same again — massive slowdowns across the board while Adium and the Keychain work out their interaction. Oddly, they don’t overload the processor; the system load drops to almost nothing while Adium negotiates its access to the Keychain, but all processes go at a snail’s pace. Once Adium gets happy, everything returns to normal. But this is much too big an annoyance to put up with more than once in a great while, and if I didn’t have a bunch of friends using incompatible messaging protocols, I’d just go back to iChat.


Kevin (who's working on a Version 3.0 of Random Thoughts) noted,
If you go into keychain manager and kibosh all the adium keys your adiumache will go away.

and David, from whom I hadn’t heard before, suggested

Check out Spark. It is the recommended IM platform at the University of Chicago for the Mac.

http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/index.jsp


David

Posted by AKMA at November 7, 2007 12:04 PM | Threadorati

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