I was just wondering if there was an easy fix to this.I use Thunderbird on my main box to help run a webzine. I have Thunderbird receiving and fetching mail from various locations and receive approximately over +1500 emails per day (some days 3,000). So, Thunderbird is pretty busy.When I monitor the use of resources, TB can go from using practically no resources to 80-90% resources. This has the effect of making my Mageia box "freeze" temporarily when TB is gobbling up a lot of resources. I have been ignoring this when working with other software as I know that 5-6 seconds later TB generally releases enough resources for the other programmes to work. The whole setup makes for a lot of hiccups when in use. Although, the board is really reliable.My Mobo: ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800 RAM: 2 gig (Mobo RAM max is 2 gig so I can't add more) AGP Card: GeForce 7300GT I usually need the following software open to work with: FF KWrite Skype PidginI know that a new mobo with more RAM would fix this, but is there a way to make the box work with less interruptions? Are there any other options/tricks other than replacing the box?
Hi Marc,Have you tried lowering the priority of the thunderbird process? See 'man nice' for how to do this.
Remmy
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