From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 24 11:46:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7161E16A419 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:46:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DB813C458 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:46:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZmNw-000804-UF for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:45:57 +0100 Received: from esperance.zetnet.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with SMTP id l8OBjuLB020401 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:45:56 +0100 Received: (qmail 1592 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Sep 2007 11:45:50 -0000 From: "Frank Shute" Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:45:50 +0100 To: Byung-Hee HWANG Message-ID: <20070924114550.GA1548@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <1190618389.1658.7.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> <46F7714A.7060802@adempiere.org> <1190629475.2373.6.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1190629475.2373.6.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:45:56 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is your Thunderbird OK? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:46:02 -0000 On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:24:34PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:41 +0330, Bahman M. wrote: > > Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > > > Just been wondering about this for long weeks. I have some complain > > > Thudnerbird's the speed when it start up on FreeBSD. Its speed is very > > > slow. While thunderbird start up, I go to brew coffee. Aside from that, > > > Thunderbird is the best MUA, indeed. > > > > > > FYI, this is my information: > > > bh@viola:~> uname -v > > > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 #1: Wed Aug 22 08:47:36 KST 2007 > > > root@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > > bh@viola:~> pkg_info | grep thunderbird > > > thunderbird-1.5.0.7_1 Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail [...] > > > bh@viola:~> > > > > > > I _really_ want to share opinions about this topic (Thunderbird's start > > > up speed) with you FreeBSD users. > > > > > > What do you think of? > > > > Does the problem occur only at startup? What's the size of > > Thunderbird's image in memory? I'd read somewhere that to speed up > > things, Thunderbird keeps emails in memory; however I'm not sure if it > > applies to 1.5.0. > > > I just use default setting, so I don't know my Thunderbird's memory in > detail. However, I took a top(1)'s screenshot while thunderbird is > active. Here is the screenshot: > > http://izb.knu.ac.kr/~bh/stuff/20070924-tb-ss.png [image/png 223k] > Your machine needs more memory. Thunderbird will be hitting swap on start up, which is why it's slow. If you can't add more memory for some reason, then you'll have to run lighter weight programs. Even just doubling your memory to 512MB would be an improvement but I'd recommend 1GB. I have 3GB and my machine never hits swap. -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html