[dapper] Memory and CPU usage

[Phillip Susi]

Anthony David wrote:
> I haven't used either of these tools, but they may be reporting different
> memory figures (working set size vs total virtual memory used). Try using
> the top command in a shell. That clearly by default breaks up the memory used
> and should show you what mozilla-thinderbird-bin is using.
> 
> Performance of many email clients is inversely proportional to the size of
> the inbox. Is your's large?

Any email clients that exhibit such behavior are not worth using imho, 
and thunderbird is not one of those.  I regularly deal with mailboxes 
containing > 4000 messages with a total size of 100 MB or more without 
any slowdowns.