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