James Knott composed on 2021-08-27 14:12 (UTC-0400):
Felix Miata wrote:
How often do you compact folders? How often do you close SM entirely? What is your swap configuration?
I have the folders configured to automatically compact.
I have it set that way, but I empty trash daily, immediately followed by manual compacting. Thus, automatic compacting here is rare. Nearly always I delete attachments to saved mails, to keep mail folder sizes svelte. Annually I move the biggest mail files to a subdirectory, also to keep the most active folders svelte. These subdirectories now date back to 2005. My busiest profile's mail directory consumes 434M ATM, complete busiest profile 966M, with 92M in tmpfs.
I shut it down only when I have to, due to poor performance or rebooting the computer
Almost the same here. Generally I try to keep it open less than a week at a time.
I have 16 GB of swap space on the hard drive.
I have 32G RAM, and usually keep my swapspace disabled. When I see RAM consumption approach 100% with less than 50% in cache, I'll restart the browser(s) that have been open longest, or close them all, then log out and right back in. Purposeful logouts are always with all Mozillas and other browsers closed. Normally I have two instances of SM, one of FF and one Palemoon open continuously, with another of FF and/or Chromium and/or Falkon open briefly on occasion. There's no way to tell how many tabs I have open. The count probably exceeds 120 by a bunch, maybe twice that. Recently I changed most Mozilla profiles to have their cache in /tmp/ on tmpfs instead of /tmp/ on disk. Normal cache location for Mozillas is in their profile directories on disk. The move to tmpfs seems to have reduced the occasional pauses. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata