On 08/09/2016 05:42 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > I used Thunderbird for years, but I eventually had to stop when it would, > averaging once a month (though sometimes not for a couple months, sometimes a > couple times a week) explode in memory consumption and drive the entire > system > unresponsively into swap. >
I've been using thunderbird exclusively on my PC and haven't seen this particular issue. When was the last time you tried it? I've probably got between 8k and 10k messages in it right now. Memory consumption is 3.3% of 8GB and I do see every 30 seconds or so thunderbird wakes up and does something for a few seconds, using 8-10% of CPU while it does. But I've never noticed it actually doing anything (like slowing the system to a crawl.) Dan
