weird delay thuderbird and samba

[John Hupp]

On 3/20/2015 4:26 PM, Linda wrote:
> I have a small network includes mostly ubuntu/lubuntu boxes and 2 windows 7 machines. I am having a strange issue thought someone might have a suggestion on to trouble shoot it.
> We have a directory that is shared to the linux computers with nfs and the windows computers with samba. When the user wants a pdf for output it puts it in that directory. When the user creates  the pdf and thunderbird is not open the file immediately appears in the directory just like it does on the linux boxes, but if thunderbird is open the file does not appear in the direcotry for the windows user. If they close thunderbird and reopen the directory it is there. Any idea what might cause the delay and how to fix it?
>                        Thanks
>                       Linda
>

Just tossing out an idea: I've seen a couple recent posts (though 
without follow-up/confirmation/definitive-conclusion) about Thunderbird 
hogging memory and becoming unresponsive (or perhaps causing 
unresponsiveness), especially after resume from a sleep mode.

So I would look at Thunderbird's use of memory and swap.