Hi Remmy,
Le 2012-11-07 06:08, Remco Rijnders a écrit :
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:18:27AM -0500, Marc wrote in
<[email protected]>:
I was just wondering if there was an easy fix to this.
I use Thunderbird on my main box to help run a webzine. I have
Thunderbird receiving and fetching mail from various locations and
receive approximately over +1500 emails per day (some days 3,000). So,
Thunderbird is pretty busy.
When I monitor the use of resources, TB can go from using practically
no resources to 80-90% resources. This has the effect of making my
Mageia box "freeze" temporarily when TB is gobbling up a lot of
resources. I have been ignoring this when working with other software
as I know that 5-6 seconds later TB generally releases enough
resources for the other programmes to work. The whole setup makes for
a lot of hiccups when in use. Although, the board is really reliable.
My Mobo: ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800
RAM: 2 gig (Mobo RAM max is 2 gig so I can't add more)
AGP Card: GeForce 7300GT
I usually need the following software open to work with:
FF
KWrite
Skype
Pidgin
I know that a new mobo with more RAM would fix this, but is there a
way to make the box work with less interruptions? Are there any other
options/tricks other than replacing the box?
Hi Marc,
Have you tried lowering the priority of the thunderbird process? See
'man nice' for how to do this.
Remmy
Thanks for the reply.
No, I haven't tried this. Is there a way to do this with some kind of
GUI piece of software? I usually try to find ways to work on Mageia in a
way that any user could manage; most users will prefer to do this in a
GUI-visual-way.
Cheers,
Marc
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