On 11/05/2020 07.44, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 05/10/2020 03:25 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
Both thunderbird and firefox can use obnoxious amounts of memory. It is actually by design. I don't agree with the philosophy from a programming standpoint, but I understand it is a valid choice to make. Mozilla in general approaches memory management with the philosophy of:
"if it's available -- use it to speed up execution of the code".
This is not true when there isn't, and Th goes into swap, as it did in my previous machine. I read somewhere and time ago that it was due to memory fragmentation. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)