Closed Bug 544691 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

thunderbird is using 900MB of memory

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

1.9.1 Branch
x86
Windows 7
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: n0ah, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Keywords: perf)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: 3.5.7

Don't really know.. I have two email addresses configured for imap using google's mail servers. I was looking for another process in task manager and noticed firebird using 900MB of memory

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Assumingly just run thunderbird ?
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Actual Results:  
Thunderbird used 900MB of memory

Expected Results:  
To use perhaps 32-64MB of memory
correction this is *thunderbird* not 'firebord' (hehe) and it's version 3.0.1
please run through https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems and report results
Severity: normal → major
Version: unspecified → 3.0
I had a similar issue.

I have 2 x IMAP account connections totalling 100+ folders and my entire email archive is around 5GB.

Just over 2 weeks ago TB3 started to use huge amount of RAM and CPU power. At its worst, it was up to 1.5GB of RAM after just a few minutes of being started.

I disabled global indexing and searching, restarted and ever since I've had no issues. Average memory usage is now between 60-80MB of RAM.
Hi Nick. We're still waiting for Noah, but let's start on your issue.  If you haven't already, please please run through all the steps of 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems and report
results. If you find the only thing that helps is turning off indexing, please get a msgdb log.
Keywords: perf
Component: General → Backend
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
QA Contact: general → backend
Version: 3.0 → 1.9.1 Branch
I have been unable to reproduce the problem.
Noah in comment #5
> I have been unable to reproduce the problem

In that case, let's close this WORKSFORME.  If you see the problem in the future, please reopen the bug with detailshttps://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems from 

Nick, you'll want to file a new bug with detailshttps://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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