259215 - 6 accts, 1 window, w/s 29.8MB, disk 40.9MB, total 70.7MB -- unacceptable

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[von preussen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

minimizing drops to med 4-figures w/s, restoring shoots back up to "summary"
condition and some times worse

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. use tb
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
as explained

Expected Results:  
this is an unbelievable waste of mem usage for an email client.

this is a marketing/programming failure across mozilla ff/tb

nobody is willing to put up with a ff/tb env that takes 60 to >100 MB of ram and
70 to >100 MB disk to just do minimal service.

morover, ff/tb frequently suffer mem leaks that do not crash but slowly
deteriorate the env causing scn r/w problems, uri load errors, crashing of other
pgms, et cetera.

restoring the sys viability requires a warm boot to completely solve the problems.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[von preussen]

any windows user that knows how to check mem usage will attest to the fact that
this problem has not gone away. anyone using linux will note that the ff/tb mem
usage is even more extravagant. however, using fc4 x86_64 i have not noted env
corruption using recent releases.

since i ceased using ff/tb in windows earlier this year, i cannot comment on
what is happening with the latest releases. i do know the problems persisted
through the first release after 1.0 tb and i gave up.

this bug's title probably drew "so what's new" reactions and people just skipped
on to juicier esoterica, but the problems are real and rife through the release
noted, supra.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

see bug 266679 - a major cause of bloat has been fixed on the trunk and in
1.5beta builds.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

fixed per comment 3.  Please reopen if you see otherwise using a current version of Thunderbird.