getimiskon, 2 months ago

@uhuru moziller moment
@thunderbird

thunderbird, 2 months ago

@getimiskon @uhuru Have you tried the steps in this Support article? It's a good place to start! https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems

~Monica

uhuru, 2 months ago

@thunderbird wow, long article, but yes, i'll try steps there first. thanks!

uhuru, 2 months ago

step 1 :
latest version from distro (115.8.0)

step 2 (safe mode) :
still slow UI, somewhat improved response.. appearance: very ugly, and continues to be ugly after restarting in normal mode...

steps 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 don't apply. linux machine, no AV or FW running. no gmail account either.

#thunderbird

uhuru, 2 months ago

today was a first for oom-killer killing #thunderbird

pc was powered off for the last 3 days. so 3 days since last open and thunderbird can't handle either one of :

1. hundreds of new emails?
2. 1GB of global-messages sqlite?
3. 20-30 simultaneous network connections?
4. 50-60 filters on hundreds of new emails?
5. syncing >1day old emails/caldav/carddav/rss ?
6. other?

last time, thunderbird sqlite vacuum helped a bit. but maybe its time to actively seek/test alternatives...

uhuru, 17 days ago

finally,
#thunderbird freezing was -probably- caused by several (~25) filters on a single account..
there were 3-4 obsolete filters and 1 filter was also conflicting with another. (been there for years - not updated since setup)

moved valid account filters server-side and disabled all from thunderbird, and now it behaves normally again.. no lag, freezes or oom-serial-killer...

btw, this account gets hundreds of messages each day.

@thunderbird

thunderbird, 13 days ago

@uhuru We're glad these steps seemed to have worked for you! Give us a heads up if the behavior comes back.