Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[flyguy]

flyguy wrote on 5/23/2020 8:48 PM:



I changed my disk cache from "SM manages size" to 50 MB, and disabled the 
prefetch. SM runs much better now, with less CPU and memory usage. Formerly I 
struggled to keep the memory usage under 80%; now it remains in the 50s and low 
60s. No slowdowns, no more "Not Responding".


I should note the usage mentioned is total for the machine, not just what SM is 
using, which is now in 15%-30% range, depending on the number of tabs and the sites.


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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[flyguy]

Doors wrote on 5/20/2020 10:00 AM:

On Sun, 17 May 2020 05:40:47 -0700, flyguy 
wrote:


Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser window open.
The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. Closing the
browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then reopening it, it
used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there a way to 
avoid
it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening
the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to
close the browser, too.


It isn't just you.

SM has always been a memory hog.
I run it with disk cache disabled, set to 1Mb that is.
Prefetching disabled, check page on every load.
It exceeds 2Gb for me daily, at times spiking to 4Gb.
Thank goodness for the restart button.

The pattern I have noticed indicates not all memory is released when a
page is closed.
If a page takes 150Mb to render, 25-50Mb is not released.
It could be an incomplete release list, or some automatic allocator that
fails to report memory usage correctly.
Not that FF is much better behaved.
No idea on chrome, I won't allow it on my system.

Still better than the mess that is FF.
I am so glad I can kill tabs, I hate those things.


I changed my disk cache from "SM manages size" to 50 MB, and disabled the 
prefetch. SM runs much better now, with less CPU and memory usage. Formerly I 
struggled to keep the memory usage under 80%; now it remains in the 50s and low 
60s. No slowdowns, no more "Not Responding".




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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[Ray Davison]

flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser 
window open. 


W7U64 4G RAM, SM 2.49.5

Fresh boot

SM browser one empty tab: 300MB SM RAM

SM browser still open and mail open and downloading mail: 800MB SM RAM

SM browser still open and mail open and mail settled: 500MB SM RAM

Is that a lot?

Ray






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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[Frank-Rainer Grahl]

WaltS48 wrote:

On 5/21/20 3:38 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:



Ant wrote:

On 5/20/2020 3:49 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:



Ant wrote:

On 5/20/2020 10:00 AM, Doors wrote:

On Sun, 17 May 2020 05:40:47 -0700, flyguy 
wrote:


Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser 
window open.
The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. 
Closing the
browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then 
reopening it, it
used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there a 
way to avoid
it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind 
closing/reopening
the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a 
nuisance to

close the browser, too.


It isn't just you.

SM has always been a memory hog.
I run it with disk cache disabled, set to 1Mb that is.
Prefetching disabled, check page on every load.
It exceeds 2Gb for me daily, at times spiking to 4Gb.
Thank goodness for the restart button.

The pattern I have noticed indicates not all memory is released when a
page is closed.
If a page takes 150Mb to render, 25-50Mb is not released.
It could be an incomplete release list, or some automatic allocator that
fails to report memory usage correctly.
Not that FF is much better behaved.
No idea on chrome, I won't allow it on my system.

Still better than the mess that is FF.
I am so glad I can kill tabs, I hate those things.


Ditto. SM v2.53.2 and earlier still use old Gecko's web browser engine. I 
was told v2.57 uses the newer one that current Firefox uses. It still has 
a long way to go before it's stable for the public though. :( I have to 
exit and restart my SeaMonkey often because of bloated web sites like 
YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit's new design (old design is 
fine), etc. It really hogs resources like memories, CPU, etc. SeaMonkey 
even freezes and sometimes get stuck forever! It doesn't even take long 
too for these issues to come up too! :(


Ther is no new web browser engine. Actually 2.53.x has many backports 
here. 2.57 and up are not really faster. Just bloated sites these days.


Oh. Firefox's newer Geck web engine is much faster than the one in 
SeaMonkey. :(


There is no new web engine.

FRG



So Gecko 78 with all the mozilla-central commits wouldn't be a new and 
improved Gecko engine?




Improved yes but not new. Rip enough functionality out, dumb down the ui with 
primitive black and white svg graphics (fast because vector graphics) and put 
bogus blocking stuff in it in the name of privacy which prior to this was done 
by extensions like uBlock and NoScript and you get: A faster browser. 
Surprise! Most of it possible because of e10s which doesn't block the ui and 
unfortunately neither TB nor SeaMonkey has yet.


I am the last one saying that SeaMonkey rendering is faster or better but 
Chromium Edge still runs circles around both Fx and SM.


I think 76 may also have some improvements like WebRender for some Windows 
users on modern Intel laptops with a small screen for improved graphics 
rendering.




Yes unless you run with a buggy graphics driver which, in my opinion is the 
case for all Intel chips and older AMD/Nvidia drivers. Rust and webrender to 
the rescue! We will see in about 2 years if I am wrong.



YMMV



Yes but overall SM still delivers the best overall usability package for me. 
Not for everyone or course. Use Google or facebook extensively and you are 
probably better off with a Chromium based browser. But the good thing is you 
can run bioth side by side if needed :)



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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[WaltS48]

On 5/21/20 3:38 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:



Ant wrote:

On 5/20/2020 3:49 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:



Ant wrote:

On 5/20/2020 10:00 AM, Doors wrote:

On Sun, 17 May 2020 05:40:47 -0700, flyguy 
wrote:


Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser 
window open.
The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. 
Closing the
browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then 
reopening it, it
used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there 
a way to avoid
it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind 
closing/reopening
the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's 
a nuisance to

close the browser, too.


It isn't just you.

SM has always been a memory hog.
I run it with disk cache disabled, set to 1Mb that is.
Prefetching disabled, check page on every load.
It exceeds 2Gb for me daily, at times spiking to 4Gb.
Thank goodness for the restart button.

The pattern I have noticed indicates not all memory is released when a
page is closed.
If a page takes 150Mb to render, 25-50Mb is not released.
It could be an incomplete release list, or some automatic allocator 
that

fails to report memory usage correctly.
Not that FF is much better behaved.
No idea on chrome, I won't allow it on my system.

Still better than the mess that is FF.
I am so glad I can kill tabs, I hate those things.


Ditto. SM v2.53.2 and earlier still use old Gecko's web browser 
engine. I was told v2.57 uses the newer one that current Firefox 
uses. It still has a long way to go before it's stable for the 
public though. :( I have to exit and restart my SeaMonkey often 
because of bloated web sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, 
Twitter, Reddit's new design (old design is fine), etc. It really 
hogs resources like memories, CPU, etc. SeaMonkey even freezes and 
sometimes get stuck forever! It doesn't even take long too for these 
issues to come up too! :(


Ther is no new web browser engine. Actually 2.53.x has many backports 
here. 2.57 and up are not really faster. Just bloated sites these days.


Oh. Firefox's newer Geck web engine is much faster than the one in 
SeaMonkey. :(


There is no new web engine.

FRG



So Gecko 78 with all the mozilla-central commits wouldn't be a new and 
improved Gecko engine?


I think 76 may also have some improvements like WebRender for some 
Windows users on modern Intel laptops with a small screen for improved 
graphics rendering.


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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[Frank-Rainer Grahl]

Ant wrote:

On 5/20/2020 3:49 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:



Ant wrote:

On 5/20/2020 10:00 AM, Doors wrote:

On Sun, 17 May 2020 05:40:47 -0700, flyguy 
wrote:


Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser window 
open.
The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. Closing 
the
browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then reopening 
it, it
used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there a way 
to avoid
it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind 
closing/reopening
the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a 
nuisance to

close the browser, too.


It isn't just you.

SM has always been a memory hog.
I run it with disk cache disabled, set to 1Mb that is.
Prefetching disabled, check page on every load.
It exceeds 2Gb for me daily, at times spiking to 4Gb.
Thank goodness for the restart button.

The pattern I have noticed indicates not all memory is released when a
page is closed.
If a page takes 150Mb to render, 25-50Mb is not released.
It could be an incomplete release list, or some automatic allocator that
fails to report memory usage correctly.
Not that FF is much better behaved.
No idea on chrome, I won't allow it on my system.

Still better than the mess that is FF.
I am so glad I can kill tabs, I hate those things.


Ditto. SM v2.53.2 and earlier still use old Gecko's web browser engine. I 
was told v2.57 uses the newer one that current Firefox uses. It still has a 
long way to go before it's stable for the public though. :( I have to exit 
and restart my SeaMonkey often because of bloated web sites like YouTube, 
LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit's new design (old design is fine), etc. 
It really hogs resources like memories, CPU, etc. SeaMonkey even freezes 
and sometimes get stuck forever! It doesn't even take long too for these 
issues to come up too! :(


Ther is no new web browser engine. Actually 2.53.x has many backports here. 
2.57 and up are not really faster. Just bloated sites these days.


Oh. Firefox's newer Geck web engine is much faster than the one in SeaMonkey. :(


There is no new web engine.

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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[Ant]

On 5/20/2020 3:49 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:



Ant wrote:

On 5/20/2020 10:00 AM, Doors wrote:

On Sun, 17 May 2020 05:40:47 -0700, flyguy 
wrote:


Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser 
window open.
The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. 
Closing the
browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then 
reopening it, it
used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there a 
way to avoid
it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind 
closing/reopening
the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a 
nuisance to

close the browser, too.


It isn't just you.

SM has always been a memory hog.
I run it with disk cache disabled, set to 1Mb that is.
Prefetching disabled, check page on every load.
It exceeds 2Gb for me daily, at times spiking to 4Gb.
Thank goodness for the restart button.

The pattern I have noticed indicates not all memory is released when a
page is closed.
If a page takes 150Mb to render, 25-50Mb is not released.
It could be an incomplete release list, or some automatic allocator that
fails to report memory usage correctly.
Not that FF is much better behaved.
No idea on chrome, I won't allow it on my system.

Still better than the mess that is FF.
I am so glad I can kill tabs, I hate those things.


Ditto. SM v2.53.2 and earlier still use old Gecko's web browser 
engine. I was told v2.57 uses the newer one that current Firefox uses. 
It still has a long way to go before it's stable for the public 
though. :( I have to exit and restart my SeaMonkey often because of 
bloated web sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit's 
new design (old design is fine), etc. It really hogs resources like 
memories, CPU, etc. SeaMonkey even freezes and sometimes get stuck 
forever! It doesn't even take long too for these issues to come up 
too! :(


Ther is no new web browser engine. Actually 2.53.x has many backports 
here. 2.57 and up are not really faster. Just bloated sites these days.


Oh. Firefox's newer Geck web engine is much faster than the one in 
SeaMonkey. :(

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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[Frank-Rainer Grahl]

Ant wrote:

On 5/20/2020 10:00 AM, Doors wrote:

On Sun, 17 May 2020 05:40:47 -0700, flyguy 
wrote:


Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser window 
open.

The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. Closing the
browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then reopening 
it, it
used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there a way to 
avoid
it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind 
closing/reopening
the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a 
nuisance to

close the browser, too.


It isn't just you.

SM has always been a memory hog.
I run it with disk cache disabled, set to 1Mb that is.
Prefetching disabled, check page on every load.
It exceeds 2Gb for me daily, at times spiking to 4Gb.
Thank goodness for the restart button.

The pattern I have noticed indicates not all memory is released when a
page is closed.
If a page takes 150Mb to render, 25-50Mb is not released.
It could be an incomplete release list, or some automatic allocator that
fails to report memory usage correctly.
Not that FF is much better behaved.
No idea on chrome, I won't allow it on my system.

Still better than the mess that is FF.
I am so glad I can kill tabs, I hate those things.


Ditto. SM v2.53.2 and earlier still use old Gecko's web browser engine. I was 
told v2.57 uses the newer one that current Firefox uses. It still has a long 
way to go before it's stable for the public though. :( I have to exit and 
restart my SeaMonkey often because of bloated web sites like YouTube, 
LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit's new design (old design is fine), etc. It 
really hogs resources like memories, CPU, etc. SeaMonkey even freezes and 
sometimes get stuck forever! It doesn't even take long too for these issues to 
come up too! :(


Ther is no new web browser engine. Actually 2.53.x has many backports here. 
2.57 and up are not really faster. Just bloated sites these days.


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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[Ant]

On 5/20/2020 10:00 AM, Doors wrote:

On Sun, 17 May 2020 05:40:47 -0700, flyguy 
wrote:


Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser window open.
The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. Closing the
browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then reopening it, it
used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there a way to 
avoid
it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening
the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to
close the browser, too.


It isn't just you.

SM has always been a memory hog.
I run it with disk cache disabled, set to 1Mb that is.
Prefetching disabled, check page on every load.
It exceeds 2Gb for me daily, at times spiking to 4Gb.
Thank goodness for the restart button.

The pattern I have noticed indicates not all memory is released when a
page is closed.
If a page takes 150Mb to render, 25-50Mb is not released.
It could be an incomplete release list, or some automatic allocator that
fails to report memory usage correctly.
Not that FF is much better behaved.
No idea on chrome, I won't allow it on my system.

Still better than the mess that is FF.
I am so glad I can kill tabs, I hate those things.


Ditto. SM v2.53.2 and earlier still use old Gecko's web browser engine. 
I was told v2.57 uses the newer one that current Firefox uses. It still 
has a long way to go before it's stable for the public though. :( I have 
to exit and restart my SeaMonkey often because of bloated web sites like 
YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit's new design (old design is 
fine), etc. It really hogs resources like memories, CPU, etc. SeaMonkey 
even freezes and sometimes get stuck forever! It doesn't even take long 
too for these issues to come up too! :(

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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[Doors]

On Sun, 17 May 2020 05:40:47 -0700, flyguy 
wrote:

>Windows 10, SM 2.49.4
>
>Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser window 
>open. 
>The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. Closing the 
>browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then reopening it, 
>it 
>used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there a way to 
>avoid 
>it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind 
>closing/reopening 
>the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance 
>to 
>close the browser, too.

It isn't just you.

SM has always been a memory hog.
I run it with disk cache disabled, set to 1Mb that is.
Prefetching disabled, check page on every load.
It exceeds 2Gb for me daily, at times spiking to 4Gb.
Thank goodness for the restart button.

The pattern I have noticed indicates not all memory is released when a
page is closed.
If a page takes 150Mb to render, 25-50Mb is not released.
It could be an incomplete release list, or some automatic allocator that
fails to report memory usage correctly.
Not that FF is much better behaved.
No idea on chrome, I won't allow it on my system.

Still better than the mess that is FF.
I am so glad I can kill tabs, I hate those things.


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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[flyguy]

Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote on 5/17/2020 7:11 AM:

flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser window open. 
The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. Closing the 
browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then reopening it, it 
used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there a way to 
avoid it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind 
closing/reopening the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so 
it's a nuisance to close the browser, too.


What does:
- exiting the whole program (File -> Quit)
- restarting it
- Go -> Restore Previous Session (from the browser) do for your memory usage?



Just to be clear, here's another example:

- email and browser(1 tab) open: 26% memory usage (out 8GB)
- email still open, close browser: 23% mem. usage
- close email, open email only: 10% usage
- begin this reply: 14% usage

So, email is using an extra 13% for no apparent reason. And, 13% is significant, 
as I have only 8GB RAM. When usage gets to 80%, the computer becomes sluggish, and 
SM in particular can become "Not responding" for many seconds, or much longer and 
have to be closed with Task Manager.

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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[mozilla-lists . mbourne]

EE wrote:

Richard Alan wrote:

EE wrote:


flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post
front page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after
closing the email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this
high memory usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it
without closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email,
but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to
close the browser, too.


If you read your email as plain text, it should not take as much room.


Choosing to read only the plain text will not change the size of the 
email
or the memory usage of the window. If the email contains an "HTML 
half" it

still loads. Do a Crtl-U and see it all.

That is only if the email is multipart.  If the sender uses only HTML 
and you read that as plain text, the tidied content does not take much 
space.  I read all my email as plain text.  Even if I deal with 20 
messages, I delete them when I have finished, then compact the folders. 
The compaction tells me how much space I saved afterwards, and it is on 
the order of kilobytes, not megabytes.


The space saved by compacting is the disk space saved by deleting the 
emails from the mailbox file on disk.  Nothing to do with memory usage. 
And that is the size of the full emails, including headers and all parts 
(including any attachments) and not affected by how you view them - 
you'll be seeing that space saved even if you delete the email without 
ever viewing it.


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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[NFN Smith]

flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser 
window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front 
page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the 
email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory 
usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without 
closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often 
I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the 
browser, too.


I've found this effect on my own machines, although I haven't tried to 
do any serious work of digging in to figure out if it's something 
related to the browser, the mail client, one of my extensions, a 
combination of things, or something else that I haven't thought of.  My 
suspicion is that there's a memory leak somewhere, but the symptoms 
aren't always consistent.


Something that I've noticed is that sometimes, I get really laggy 
response and the Windows Task Manager showing Seamonkey using a lot of 
cycles, and the memory allocation is only about 850 MB (and slow 
perfomance), and sometimes, I can see memory usage above 1.5 GB, and no 
obvious performance issues.


Several weeks ago, I was interacting with a form with multiple screens 
that had a ton of scripting in it (where every single input required 
script interaction), and I noticed that the further I got into the form, 
the slower the response was.  By the time that I got to the last few 
inputs on the form, Seamonkey was giving me scripting timeouts. I had 
left Seamonkey open overnight, after a full day of usage the previous 
day, and IIRC, checks of Windows Task Manager showed that Seamonkey was 
using around 2.2 GB of RAM, and heavy CPU usage. Normally, for that kind 
of slowness of response, I would have restarted Seamonkey, but by the 
time the performance got beyond tolerable, I was far enough into the 
form that I didn't want to have to start over at the beginning of the form.


I live in Seamonkey all day, and I generally don't have any issues if I 
have launched it at the beginning of the day.  Most often, if I see 
issues, it tends to be if I've left it open overnight. I know that 
yesterday, at the end of the day, I had Seamonkey open with light usage, 
and I forgot to shut down, and when I came in this morning, it was still 
open.  Memory usage was a little more than 1 GB. I didn't check for 
performance before I restarted.


In my experience, I don't see evidence that Seamonkey is hardware 
restrained. I currently run 16 GB of RAM, and even when it's slow, 
there's still plenty of RAM available. And about a year ago, I moved to 
a to a new machine with an SSD in it. Thus, it appears that there aren't 
issues with swapping happening. Since I moved to this machine, I think I 
see the performance issues a little less frequently, but not 
dramatically, The most constant thing seems to be where it's been 
running for more than 16 hours at a time.


A lot of the time, I'm content to simply restart Seamonkey, but there 
are times when that's inconvenient.  I have more than one mailbox set 
where I don't allow Seamonkey to remember the password for POP and IMAP 
connections (I do that to ensure that by having to enter those passwords 
once per session, I don't forget them), and I also have Seamonkey set to 
discard all my cookies at the end of a session.  Thus, if I do a 
restart, I have to re-enter passwords for email, and sometimes for open 
sessions in the browser.


One of my favorite extensions is Session Manager.  I have that one set 
to keep a list of all open tabs when the browser shuts down, and when I 
restart, I have the last 8 sessions available (along with other sets of 
tabs that I've saved).  Thus, if I have a bunch of tabs open at the end 
of the day, I can shut down Seamonkey, and then when I start up the next 
day, I can re-open all of those tabs (even if I have to log into any 
open browser sessions).


Since I have a spare machine available, I might try seeing what happens 
if I build up a profile from scratch, starting with just a browser, and 
then adding one or more mail accounts as well as extensions, to see if I 
can find any pattern to where performance begins to lag.



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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[EE]

Richard Alan wrote:

EE wrote:


flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post
front page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after
closing the email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this
high memory usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it
without closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email,
but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to
close the browser, too.


If you read your email as plain text, it should not take as much room.


Choosing to read only the plain text will not change the size of the email
or the memory usage of the window. If the email contains an "HTML half" it
still loads. Do a Crtl-U and see it all.

That is only if the email is multipart.  If the sender uses only HTML 
and you read that as plain text, the tidied content does not take much 
space.  I read all my email as plain text.  Even if I deal with 20 
messages, I delete them when I have finished, then compact the folders. 
The compaction tells me how much space I saved afterwards, and it is on 
the order of kilobytes, not megabytes.


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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[EE]

David E. Ross wrote:

On 5/17/2020 11:24 AM, EE wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

On 5/17/2020 7:07 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:

flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front
page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the
email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory
usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without
closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often
I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the
browser, too.


I have a similar problem with SeaMonkey memory usage growing over time.
   My solution was to add a "restart application" button that I use
whenever it starts getting sluggish.  This closes and restarts SeaMonkey
without losing anything other than the time it takes to restart.

Dave



Does the Restart Application button do a full restart?  That is, does it
reload user.js to restore preferences that might have been changed
during the session?  If so, how can I get the Restart Application button?


Chromedit Plus provides a stand-alone restart button.  Restart does redo
the preference settings from user.js.



Aha!  That is exactly what I have been seeking.  Some Web sites that I
visit require that I change my preferences from what I usually have.  I
use PrefBar for that.  Sometimes the changes are so extensive, however,
that it is easier to terminate SeaMonkey and then relaunch it.  If I was
in a profile that is not my default, that also means switching back to
the profile I was using.

If this restarts me back in my non-default profile, the Restart
Application button will be great.

Chromedit Plus and its restart does not switch profiles.  It puts the 
changes you made with it (to user.js, userContent.css, and 
userChrome.css) into effect.


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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[flyguy]

Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote on 5/17/2020 7:11 AM:

flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser window open. 
The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front page. Closing the 
browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the email then reopening it, it 
used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory usage before. Is there a way to 
avoid it, or to reduce it without closing the program? I don't mind 
closing/reopening the email, but often I have several windows and tabs open, so 
it's a nuisance to close the browser, too.


What does:
- exiting the whole program (File -> Quit)
- restarting it
- Go -> Restore Previous Session (from the browser) do for your memory usage?

That also seems to work, and is convenient enough, but it's still annoying to 
monitor the usage several times a day and go through the process. Is there a way 
to avoid the accumulation of memory SM uses that is not needed?

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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[David E. Ross]

On 5/17/2020 11:34 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
> On 5/17/2020 9:07 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:
>> David E. Ross wrote:
>>> On 5/17/2020 7:07 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:
 flyguy wrote:
> Windows 10, SM 2.49.4
>
> Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
> window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front
> page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the
> email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory
> usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without
> closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often
> I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the
> browser, too.

 I have a similar problem with SeaMonkey memory usage growing over time.
  My solution was to add a "restart application" button that I use
 whenever it starts getting sluggish.  This closes and restarts SeaMonkey
 without losing anything other than the time it takes to restart.

 Dave

>>>
>>> Does the Restart Application button do a full restart?  That is, does it
>>> reload user.js to restore preferences that might have been changed
>>> during the session?  If so, how can I get the Restart Application button?
>>>
>>
>> It appears to do a full restart.  You can get it here:
>>
>> https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/addon/restart-application-button/?src=ss
>>
>> Dave
>>
> 
> Thanks.  I will try it later today.
> 

Yes, I installed it.  It is indeed better than me manually terminating
and then relaunching SeaMonkey.

However, at least one change I do via PrefBar does not get reset when I
use the button.  That is spoofing another browser via PrefBar's
"useragent", which uses scripts instead of preference variables.  There
might be other PrefBar script-based actions that are not reset.

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COVID-19 virus.  The reason was that Bright would not
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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[Richard Alan]

EE wrote:

> flyguy wrote:
>> Windows 10, SM 2.49.4
>> 
>> Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
>> window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post
>> front page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after
>> closing the email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this
>> high memory usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it
>> without closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email,
>> but often I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to
>> close the browser, too.
> 
> If you read your email as plain text, it should not take as much room.

Choosing to read only the plain text will not change the size of the email 
or the memory usage of the window. If the email contains an "HTML half" it 
still loads. Do a Crtl-U and see it all.
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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[David E. Ross]

On 5/17/2020 11:24 AM, EE wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 5/17/2020 7:07 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:
>>> flyguy wrote:
 Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

 Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
 window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front
 page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the
 email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory
 usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without
 closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often
 I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the
 browser, too.
>>>
>>> I have a similar problem with SeaMonkey memory usage growing over time.
>>>   My solution was to add a "restart application" button that I use
>>> whenever it starts getting sluggish.  This closes and restarts SeaMonkey
>>> without losing anything other than the time it takes to restart.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>
>> Does the Restart Application button do a full restart?  That is, does it
>> reload user.js to restore preferences that might have been changed
>> during the session?  If so, how can I get the Restart Application button?
>>
> Chromedit Plus provides a stand-alone restart button.  Restart does redo 
> the preference settings from user.js.
> 

Aha!  That is exactly what I have been seeking.  Some Web sites that I
visit require that I change my preferences from what I usually have.  I
use PrefBar for that.  Sometimes the changes are so extensive, however,
that it is easier to terminate SeaMonkey and then relaunch it.  If I was
in a profile that is not my default, that also means switching back to
the profile I was using.

If this restarts me back in my non-default profile, the Restart
Application button will be great.

-- 
David E. Ross


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government's development of a vaccine against the
COVID-19 virus.  The reason was that Bright would not
endorse Trump's assertion that hydroxychloroquine might
cure COVID-19.  Is it possible that Trump was motivated
by his and his family's investments in a major producer
of hydroxychloroquine?
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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[David E. Ross]

On 5/17/2020 9:07 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 5/17/2020 7:07 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:
>>> flyguy wrote:
 Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

 Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
 window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front
 page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the
 email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory
 usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without
 closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often
 I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the
 browser, too.
>>>
>>> I have a similar problem with SeaMonkey memory usage growing over time.
>>>  My solution was to add a "restart application" button that I use
>>> whenever it starts getting sluggish.  This closes and restarts SeaMonkey
>>> without losing anything other than the time it takes to restart.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>
>> Does the Restart Application button do a full restart?  That is, does it
>> reload user.js to restore preferences that might have been changed
>> during the session?  If so, how can I get the Restart Application button?
>>
> 
> It appears to do a full restart.  You can get it here:
> 
> https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/addon/restart-application-button/?src=ss
> 
> Dave
> 

Thanks.  I will try it later today.

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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[EE]

David E. Ross wrote:

On 5/17/2020 7:07 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:

flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front
page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the
email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory
usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without
closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often
I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the
browser, too.


I have a similar problem with SeaMonkey memory usage growing over time.
  My solution was to add a "restart application" button that I use
whenever it starts getting sluggish.  This closes and restarts SeaMonkey
without losing anything other than the time it takes to restart.

Dave



Does the Restart Application button do a full restart?  That is, does it
reload user.js to restore preferences that might have been changed
during the session?  If so, how can I get the Restart Application button?

Chromedit Plus provides a stand-alone restart button.  Restart does redo 
the preference settings from user.js.


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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[EE]

flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser 
window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front 
page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the 
email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory 
usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without 
closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often 
I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the 
browser, too.


If you read your email as plain text, it should not take as much room.

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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[David H. Durgee]

David E. Ross wrote:
> On 5/17/2020 7:07 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:
>> flyguy wrote:
>>> Windows 10, SM 2.49.4
>>>
>>> Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
>>> window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front
>>> page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the
>>> email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory
>>> usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without
>>> closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often
>>> I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the
>>> browser, too.
>>
>> I have a similar problem with SeaMonkey memory usage growing over time.
>>  My solution was to add a "restart application" button that I use
>> whenever it starts getting sluggish.  This closes and restarts SeaMonkey
>> without losing anything other than the time it takes to restart.
>>
>> Dave
>>
> 
> Does the Restart Application button do a full restart?  That is, does it
> reload user.js to restore preferences that might have been changed
> during the session?  If so, how can I get the Restart Application button?
> 

It appears to do a full restart.  You can get it here:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/addon/restart-application-button/?src=ss

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[David E. Ross]

On 5/17/2020 7:07 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:
> flyguy wrote:
>> Windows 10, SM 2.49.4
>>
>> Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
>> window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front
>> page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the
>> email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory
>> usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without
>> closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often
>> I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the
>> browser, too.
> 
> I have a similar problem with SeaMonkey memory usage growing over time.
>  My solution was to add a "restart application" button that I use
> whenever it starts getting sluggish.  This closes and restarts SeaMonkey
> without losing anything other than the time it takes to restart.
> 
> Dave
> 

Does the Restart Application button do a full restart?  That is, does it
reload user.js to restore preferences that might have been changed
during the session?  If so, how can I get the Restart Application button?

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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

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flyguy wrote:

Windows 10, SM 2.49.4

Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser 
window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front 
page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the 
email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory 
usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without 
closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often 
I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the 
browser, too.


What does:
- exiting the whole program (File -> Quit)
- restarting it
- Go -> Restore Previous Session (from the browser) do for your memory 
usage?


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Re: Large memory usage by email ... or is SM in general?

[David H. Durgee]

flyguy wrote:
> Windows 10, SM 2.49.4
> 
> Task Manager showed SM using 32% memory with email and one browser
> window open. The browser had only one tab with the Washington Post front
> page. Closing the browser reduced memory use to 24%; after closing the
> email then reopening it, it used only 7%. I've noticed this high memory
> usage before. Is there a way to avoid it, or to reduce it without
> closing the program? I don't mind closing/reopening the email, but often
> I have several windows and tabs open, so it's a nuisance to close the
> browser, too.

I have a similar problem with SeaMonkey memory usage growing over time.
 My solution was to add a "restart application" button that I use
whenever it starts getting sluggish.  This closes and restarts SeaMonkey
without losing anything other than the time it takes to restart.

Dave
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