On 10/05/2020 22:25, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, here I am with a big desktop new computer. I have 32 gigs of ram, an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor, a Radeon RX 580 graphics card, and after 8 days of use Thunderbird does seem sluggish.
top output:
top - 22:19:26 up 8 days, 11:12, 2 users, load average: 1,63, 1,44, 0,83 Tasks: 575 total, 1 running, 573 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie %Cpu(s): 0,6 us, 0,2 sy, 0,0 ni, 99,1 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem : 32876712 total, 2216932 free, 13011280 used, 17648500 buff/cache KiB Swap: 10485760+total, 10453939+free, 318208 used. 18559720 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5234 cer 20 0 7705532 4,235g 163400 0 D 2,985 13,51 376:07.07 thunderbird-bin
As you can see, Th is using the absurd amount of 4.2 gigs of ram. Not a problem, I have lots of it - but sometimes I type and the letters take a second to appear. Or click on a menu or option and I have to wait for it to get highlighted.
Conclusion: Thunderbird is indeed slow and a memory hog.
Have you copied existing mail folders into a new Thunderbird instance? It could be the indexer running through archives of mails. Or just that the indexer has got stuck in a loop. I've never had much joy with it, I turn it off because even after a few years when I gave it another shot on a new install, it seemed to cause issues. Go into Preferences -> Advanced, and uncheck Global Search and Indexer. When I need to search I can still do so from the Find -> Search Messages function. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org