Nick Hogan wrote:
> Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
> > It seems to me that Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 performance on the 9/21
> > snapshot is pretty bad. What I see is a lag of minutes before
> > downloaded messages actually display. I have one account delivering to
> > the Local folders. Under the 9/17 snapshot the message download
usually
> > stopped before getting all the new messages.
>
> ? Not entirely sure what you are saying, but sounds like something
> was not happy there, too.
This meant that T-Bird quit downloading when I knew (via webmail) that
there were new messages remaining.
>
> > Dmesg follows. I don't
> > know what other info would help, I will send if asked.
> >
> > OpenBSD 4.6-current (GENERIC) #178: Mon Sep 21 13:47:26 MDT 2009
> > t...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> > cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache)
449 MHz
> > cpu0:
> >
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,
> > SSE
> > real mem = 268009472 (255MB)
> > avail mem = 251285504 (239MB)
>
> Thunderbird on a 450MHz machine with 256M RAM? OUCH. You win a
prize for
> patience already...
>
> My guess is something has just pushed you over the edge (you weren't ever
> far from it, I suspect), and you are now swapping and it wasn't before.
> "top" will give you a pretty good idea what is going on there if I'm
right.
>
> Nick.
>
You're probably right; when I cleaned out the inbox (by about 50%)
performance
picked way up. It also may be related to this being configured to
deliver to local folders, which I have not done before now.
In any case I intend to get 21st Century hardware soon.
