[Mageia-discuss] Use of resources by TB on my main Mageia box

[Remco Rijnders]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:18:27AM -0500, Marc wrote in 
<k7dchi$7lc$1 at ger.gmane.org>:
>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
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