gene heskett wrote: > > > That has got to be a 20+ gigabyte email corpus Jon. No way! I back it up to DVD with everything else on my system, and it all fits on one DVD, without compression (just barely). So, it is maybe 650 MB now, for the entire Thunderbird directory. (It only keeps the headers of the newsgroups, not the full mail text.) > And its likely that > with only 2Gb of ram, its swapping like crazy. No, it doesn't swap. That would cause heavy disk activity, there is very little. The database they use inside Thunderbird is apparently known as the culprit, the database must fit in memory, and it is apparently inefficient. Virtual memory use ran to 300-450 MB with TB 2 and 1300MB with TB 3, but it never started swapping.
Starting with a new user profile and copying in all the mail files definitely SEEMS to have fixed it, I could only write one short paragraph before it hung up before. > However, despite my own local corpus also being 20 some Gb, there are only > 2 folders that I don't expire in 2 weeks to a month, I have mail going back to 1997 on here, it is occasionally VERY useful to pull out who told me about something, and be able to come up with the exact quote. Also very important to be able to prove what **I** told somebody some time ago. I do regularly dump the trash, like every couple days, now, and then compress the folders. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
