On Sunday, January 16, 2011 03:44:25 pm Jon Elson did opine:
> gene heskett wrote:
> > That has got to be a 20+ gigabyte email corpus Jon.
>
> No way! I back it up to DVD with everything else on my system, and it
> all fits on one DVD,
> without compression (just barely). So, it is maybe 650 MB now, for the
> entire Thunderbird
> directory. (It only keeps the headers of the newsgroups, not the full
> mail text.)
>
> > And its likely that
> >
> > with only 2Gb of ram, its swapping like crazy.
>
> No, it doesn't swap. That would cause heavy disk activity, there is
> very little. The database they
> use inside Thunderbird is apparently known as the culprit, the database
> must fit in memory, and it
> is apparently inefficient. Virtual memory use ran to 300-450 MB with TB
> 2 and 1300MB with TB 3,
> but it never started swapping.
>
> Starting with a new user profile and copying in all the mail files
> definitely SEEMS to have fixed it,
> I could only write one short paragraph before it hung up before.
>
> > However, despite my own local corpus also being 20 some Gb, there are
> > only 2 folders that I don't expire in 2 weeks to a month,
>
> I have mail going back to 1997 on here, it is occasionally VERY useful
> to pull out who told me about
> something, and be able to come up with the exact quote. Also very
> important to be able to prove
> what **I** told somebody some time ago. I do regularly dump the trash,
> like every couple days, now, and then compress the folders.
>
> Jon
Yes, I read the other comments on the TB database engine too, after I made
that post. Glad you have it fixed.
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