[plug] Thunderbird - Excess Memory

[Brad Campbell]

Tim White wrote:
> Could people running Thunderbird please give me some stats about there 
> running system. What I am looking for is version, amount of mail (size) 
> and how much memory/swap it is taking up. If possible could you leave 
> mozilla-thunder bird running for about 8 hrs and give me the memory 
> stats after that (mainly looking at swap consumption)
> I am trying to see if it is a possible memory leak or something else.


   PID USER     nFLT  VIRT SWAP  SHR S %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND 

  3919 brad      12k  133m 6476  42m S  0.0 25.2  16:09 /home/brad/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 

  3921 brad        0  133m 6476  42m S  0.0 25.2   0:00 /home/brad/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 

  3922 brad        6  133m 6476  42m S  0.0 25.2   0:01 /home/brad/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 

  3926 brad        0  133m 6476  42m S  0.0 25.2   0:03 /home/brad/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 

  7593 brad        0  133m 6476  42m S  0.0 25.2   0:00 /home/brad/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 


bklaptop:~>du -hcs .thunderbird/default/p9a6thld.slt/Mail/
1.5G    .thunderbird/default/p9a6thld.slt/Mail/
1.5G    total

bklaptop:~>uptime
  16:33:38 up 1 day, 21:14, 14 users,  load average: 0.66, 0.39, 0.22

I start thunderbird on system start. Uptime is a little misleading as I suspend/resume every day (or 
possibly a couple of times). In reality it probably has about 24-30 hours actual uptime connected to 
a network.

Please include the following information in bug reports:
- SWSUSP core    : 2.0.0.66
- Kernel Version : 2.4.26
- Version spec.  : 2.0.1
- Compiler vers. : 3.3
- Modules loaded : sr_mod scsi_mod isofs nfs nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp437 vfat fat usbnet mii crc32 
ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ip_conntrack ip_tables Mvnetd Mvnet Mvnetint Mvw Mvmouse Mvkbd Mvgic 
Mvdsp Mserial Mmpip Mmerge mki-adapter nfsd lockd sunrpc tun mousedev input usbcore i810_audio 
ac97_codec e100
- Attempt number : 11

Brad