On 09/08/2016 18:09, Daniel Frey wrote: > 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 > >
Every time I've seen Thunderbird stuuter and stall, it's been network related. Usually I'm trying to access a large IMAP store remotely (that tends to stall all IMAP clients to some degree depending on how well the system deals with blocking). -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
