Re: Thunderbird performance

2009-09-26 Thread Nick Holland 
Edward 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.

 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.

Re: Thunderbird performance

2009-09-26 Thread Edward Ahlsen-Girard 

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.

Thunderbird performance

2009-09-25 Thread Edward Ahlsen-Girard 
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.  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)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 08/01/01, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90, 
SMBIOS re

v. 2.2 @ 0xfb410 (64 entries)
bios0: vendor Dell Computer Corporation version A10 date 08/01/01
bios0: Dell Computer Corporation OptiPlex GX1 450M+
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
acpi: bad checksum at 0xd7206f50
acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf/0x1
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfc670/144 (7 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 (Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA 
rev 0x00)

pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xd000 0xd/0x8000
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 82443BX AGP rev 0x03
intelagp0 at pchb0
agp0 at intelagp0: aperture at 0xf000, size 0x400
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 Intel 82443BX AGP rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
ATI Rage Pro rev 0x5c at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
piixpcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 Intel 82371AB IDE rev 0x01: DMA, 
channel 0 wire

d to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: WDC WD64AA
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 6149MB, 12594960 sectors
wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: LG, CD-ROM CRD-8400B, 1.06 ATAPI 5/cdrom 
removable

wd2 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1: WDC WD600BB-75CAA0
wd2: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 57220MB, 117187500 sectors
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd2(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 Intel 82371AB USB rev 0x01: irq 11
piixpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 Intel 82371AB Power rev 0x02: SMBus 
disabled

vga1 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 ATI Radeon 9200 SE Sec rev 0x01
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
radeondrm0 at vga1: irq 11