Thunderbird's memory usage

[Christoph Bier]

Christoph Bier schrieb am 19.10.2007 15:37:

> Hi,
> 
> Mihamina Rakotomandimby schrieb am 19.10.2007 13:05:
> 
>> Christoph Bier wrote:
>>> Hello,
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> what happened to Gutsy's Thunderbird? It uses at least 120 MB up to
>>> 350 MB RAM. Feisty's Thunderbird used about 40 MB RAM.
>> 
>> It uses the memory vailable.
>> If you dont want to, just unplug the memory stick.
>> 
>> More seriously, try to launch another application that needs the memory 
>> you are complaining for, and see what it happens.
> 
> Swap gets used ... On my laptop with 512 MB RAM Thunderbird uses at
> least 129 MB RAM. Then it starts swaping ...

After some further investigation this seems to be a bug in TB. There
are even some bug reports on this issue and it is discussed in
Mozilla newsgroups. It also applies to TB on Windows.

Best
Christoph
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