David C. Rankin wrote:
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". [snip] The problem with the mozilla approach is with computers now coming with huge amounts of memory 16G, 32G+, the overhead to scan through all of the memory allocated and in use -- takes time, and if swap is any way involved, that can be a LOT of time.
The solution seems obvious - restrict the amount memory available for TB to abuse, make it unavailable. ISTR that being discussed already ? It's easily done with cgroups. My own TB : PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9381 per 20 0 3911224 479812 55616 S 0.000 11.90 205:57.21 thunderbird-bin (4 IMAP accounts). Any chance the memory usage might be dependent on the setup - IMAP or POP accounts, indexing etc ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.6°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org