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On 09/08/2016 18:09, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 08/09/2016 05:42 AM, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> I used Thunderbird for years, but I eventually had to stop when it would, |
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>> averaging once a month (though sometimes not for a couple months, sometimes a |
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>> couple times a week) explode in memory consumption and drive the entire system |
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>> unresponsively into swap. |
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> I've been using thunderbird exclusively on my PC and haven't seen this |
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> particular issue. When was the last time you tried it? |
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> I've probably got between 8k and 10k messages in it right now. Memory |
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> consumption is 3.3% of 8GB and I do see every 30 seconds or so |
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> thunderbird wakes up and does something for a few seconds, using 8-10% |
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> of CPU while it does. But I've never noticed it actually doing anything |
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> (like slowing the system to a crawl.) |
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> Dan |
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Every time I've seen Thunderbird stuuter and stall, it's been network |
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related. Usually I'm trying to access a large IMAP store remotely (that |
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tends to stall all IMAP clients to some degree depending on how well the |
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system deals with blocking). |
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Alan McKinnon |
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