Spark has no spunk

I upgraded from Wildfire to Openfire, at the same time I switched from Pandion to Spark. Almost all my user hate it, it’s slow. Sometimes when you get a message it hangs the machine for a few seconds. Sometime you have to minimize and maximize the message a few time before you can actually see it. I just did the basic install on both, any idea on ways to improve performance? I also noticed when I migrated (went from Wildfire embeded to Openfire/SQL) that I have a lot of ghosts in my offline contact list (old users)

I am running the beta client 2.6 on my machine and I have noticed that whenever I remote desktop into my machine it closes Spark

You can try reading this http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/docs/DOC-1153 but i’m afraid there are no way to improve Spark performance greatly. It is a java app after all. Also this depends on your system resources and those problems you’ve described have more chances to appear on a low resources, older computer. You can try the latest version from here also http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/docs/DOC-1822