On 08/27/2014 11:45 AM, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I should have mentioned that I've run a system monitor and have watched Thunderbird take up more and more memory until it stops responding. I realize people often don't understand memory management. Back in the old days, I wrote memory management software for embedded systems and even a floppy disk controller with memory management. I've written routines that track allocation and reported problem routines. I had to really jump through hoops to get Windows to behave well in those days.
Jim, I suspect this too is some addon (or some need to uninstall/reinstall the addons). At rough glance, I have some 200+ folders containing some 150,000 messages of mostly junk that I've yet to sort/delete. I do experience a tbird crash now and then (once every couple of weeks of 24/7 operation, but nothing alarming - the last two crashes being: Aug 8 04:00 bp-bb6449f8-f973-45a3-92b0-45c112140808.txt Aug 29 22:07 bp-58a9439b-2793-467d-b795-0f0472140830.txt Honestly, I bet if you did something similar to the following for thunderbird (transfer data to a new profile), your problems would improve: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20... http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox As mentioned earlier, I didn't even have to go that far. The addon uninstall/reinstall was all it took (I still had addons that I had installed with FF3 TB2 and had updated for the past several years -- I suspect there were some earlier setting from old versions of addons still around that were fixed with the uninstall/reinstall) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org