Is your Thunderbird OK?

[Byung-Hee HWANG]

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 at viola:~> uname -v
> > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 #1: Wed Aug 22 08:47:36 KST 2007 
> > root at viola.izb.knu.ac.kr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
> > bh at viola:~> pkg_info | grep thunderbird
> > thunderbird-1.5.0.7_1 Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail [...]
> > bh at 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]