[14.04 64Bit]-Mozilla Thunderbird High Memory Usage?

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Would agree .. using tbird with common extensions such as enigmail
across multiple accounts gets me around 265 consistently.  I'm OK with that.


On 04/07/2014 23:10, Matthew Cliffe wrote:
> Hay,
>
> Ill have a little go at helping,
>
> First do you have any extensions installed? These can use up silly
> amounts of RAM.
>
> Also if you go here
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems
>
> They say less than 250MB is acceptable and OK for an average user, I
> assume an average user in this case only uses one email account so ...
> im not sure but I would "say" that 260 ish isn't overly large.
>
> Cheers
> Matt
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Jesse Palser
> <jessepalsermailinglists at gmail.com
> <mailto:jessepalsermailinglists at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Running Kubuntu 14.04 LTS 64Bit fully updated ("The Greatest OS In
>     The History Of Computers").
>     I'm on a slow thin client with Intel Celeron Dual-Core CPU and
>     only 4GB DDR3 RAM.
>     I would like to run a Genuine copy of Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro
>     32Bit in VMWare Player.
>     My problem is Mozilla Thunderbird email client takes much RAM
>     (~260MB ?).
>     The email client has just 4 email accounts and all are configured
>     for IMAP.
>
>     Is ~260MB RAM usage normal for Mozilla Thunderbird email client?
>     I would like to dedicate 1.5GB to the VMWare Player Win 8.1
>     Virtual Machine,
>     but I am concerned that there won't be enough RAM left for VM with
>     all my native apps running.
>
>     ~260MB seems rather excessive RAM amount for a simple email client?
>     Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
>
>     Jesse
>
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