On Monday 17 December 2007 14:06, Gary Baribault wrote:
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I think maybe my setup is what the problem is, I have Thunderbird with about 2Gigs of EMail including Server logs that I receive every morning, and some huge software lists. These messages are stored in huge MBox files, that are updated every 5 minutes when my machine Pops the server, but .. I have a dual core 64bit Turion L52 with 1.5 Gigs of memory and a 7200 RPM SATA disk. I was told that the Thunderbird plugin is not quite optimal yet, but, darn it, that's a lot of CPU and Memory as well as a good disk, performance should be better. Sorry, if it can't work well on that hardware, it shouldn't be in production. As someone else said, this is Linux not Windows, we are known for lean and mean software, this is just unacceptable, lets put performance before features!
You could always exclude your mailboxes (more precisely, the directory hierarchy within which they reside) from Beagle indexing. (Excluding folders or files by name pattern is called a "Privacy" feature, but it seems it could equally be used for performance purposes.) Also, for mailboxes that hold the archives of some high-volume mailing lists, I create separate sub-mailboxes coded (in their names) by time period. For very active lists, I need monthly archives. Others are quarterly or even annual. Doing this might also lower the amount of RAM required by Thunderbird.
Gary B
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