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Date:      Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:58:04 +0000
From:      Adam J Richardson <fatman@crackmonkey.us>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: thunderbird eats all memory and dies
Message-ID:  <4734595C.3030503@crackmonkey.us>
In-Reply-To: <1194240181.472ea8b52333d@webmail.rawbw.com>
References:  <1194240181.472ea8b52333d@webmail.rawbw.com>

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Yuri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Beginning from the time I last reinstalled FreeBSD from scratch I have my
> thunderbird dying with the following message:
> 
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>   what():  St9bad_alloc
> Abort trap (core dumped)
> 
> This is after it grows in memory to over 1GB in a few hours of idle existence.
> 
> I even forcibly reinstalled all dependent packages so that all shared libs used
> by thunderbird are refreshed. But no improvement.
> 
> Thunderbird was recently upgraded to 2.0.0.8 but the problem didn't go away.
> 
> Anyone has the same issue?
> 
> Yuri
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Hi Yuri,

Thunderbird has always been a resource hog on my systems whether I'm 
running Windows or FreeBSD. IMO it's something to do with XUL - Firefox 
chugs on my (reasonably) beefy systems too. It's too pretty to delete 
though. :/

Regards,
Adam J Richardson



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