On Sunday 26 May 2019 07:05:45 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-05-26 12:28:43) > > > On my netbook, Thunderbird seems really unstable, it stars up fine > > then seems to stall and fails to respond, it eventually picks up. > > I usually goto a terminal and type killall thunderbird. > > > > I can usually also minimise thunderbird, but maximising it, ends up > > with the top of the application bar only and the rest of the > > application is not maximised properly. > > > > Is there a program that I can run to try and figure out what it is > > doing ? I am sure there is but not sure what I would be looking for > > even with searching. > > > > In a similar way to using time, which tells how long a program has > > run for, I guess I need some sort of memory or cpu trace to see > > what Thunderbird is doing to behave this way. > > > > Chances are it will be rather incomprehensible, but at least it > > could be something I can post here, ( well pastebin if huge output ) > > so others can take a look. > > > > In the meantime I have removed my usenet account from the netbook, > > as i don't use it, on the netbook enough to justify having. > > To monitor in real time what steal most ressources, install and run > atop. Hit C/M/D/N to sort by cpu/memory/disk/net, or A to auto-sort. > > To monitor both in real time and collect data in the background to > later analysis (e.g. to examine past minutes _after_ Thunderbird has > crashed), install pcp and run "pcp atop" for real time view > > To inspect what happens with Thunderbird itself, I guess you should > look in the menus of the application for ways to open a log window... > One thing that will "freeze" it is using its own download facilities to fetch the mail, used to bug me pretty badly, but when it did come back, everything I had typed into a message came back with it. So I offloaded that fetching of emails by making fetchmail, procmail, clamscan and spamassassin all into background tasks that have minimal effect on kmail. Now my freezes are maybe a second as it sorts an incoming email that has servived the spam and viri filters.
I can elaborate if there is interest, > > - Jonas Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
