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

[Felix Miata]

On 2014-07-04 10:34 (GMT-0400) Jesse Palser composed:

> ~260MB seems rather excessive RAM amount for a simple email client?

It may seem so, but may not be. Is this an old TB profile, rather than a new 
one created with 14.04 installation? Do you use it for newsgroups as well as 
email?

Since long before TB ever existed there has been Mozilla mail, originally as 
Netscape, later Mozilla Suite, and still later SeaMonkey and Thunderbird. I 
started in 1997 with Netscape and have never used any other form of email on 
a regular basis. When I started I was using OS/2. OS/2 has a half TB shared 
RAM limit that causes trouble with using RAM hungry apps like Mozilla, which 
is why I eventually stopped using OS/2 as a primary OS - Mozilla was too 
easily exhausting the minimal supply of shared RAM. Before I stopped entirely 
I bought some time by totally ceasing to use it for newsgroups, which cut 
down on the amount of RAM it needed significantly. On switching to Linux I 
was able to avoid that limit, but not the hunger of Mozilla mailnews, which 
still happens here in the form of SeaMonkey, not Thunderbird.

Anyway, not terribly long ago, Firefox acquired an ability to swell required 
RAM appreciably more than before via its new prediction service. SM inherited 
this new misfeature too, and I'll bet so did TB. To check if this is a large 
taproot of your problem, take a look in your profile sorted by file size. Is 
there one very large file, much bigger than the next biggest, maybe bigger 
than all others combined? If so, you'll want to learn about "seer" in order 
to decide if your RAM consumption is normal, and take control of it.
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