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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Use of resources by TB on my main Mageia box</H1>
    <B>Remco Rijnders</B> 
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    <I>Wed Nov  7 12:08:53 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:18:27AM -0500, Marc wrote in 
&lt;k7dchi$7lc$<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">1 at ger.gmane.org</A>&gt;:
&gt;<i>I was just wondering if there was an easy fix to this.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>I use Thunderbird on my main box to help run a webzine. I have 
</I>&gt;<i>Thunderbird receiving and fetching mail from  various locations and 
</I>&gt;<i>receive approximately over +1500 emails per day (some days 3,000). 
</I>&gt;<i>So, Thunderbird is pretty busy.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>When I monitor the use of resources, TB can go from using practically 
</I>&gt;<i>no resources to 80-90% resources. This has the effect of making my 
</I>&gt;<i>Mageia box &quot;freeze&quot; temporarily when TB is gobbling up a lot of 
</I>&gt;<i>resources. I have been ignoring this when working with other software 
</I>&gt;<i>as I know that 5-6 seconds later TB generally releases enough 
</I>&gt;<i>resources for the other programmes to work. The whole setup makes for 
</I>&gt;<i>a lot of hiccups when in use. Although, the board is really reliable.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>My Mobo: ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800
</I>&gt;<i>RAM: 2 gig (Mobo RAM max is 2 gig so I can't add more)
</I>&gt;<i>AGP Card: GeForce 7300GT
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>I usually need the following software open to work with:
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>FF
</I>&gt;<i>KWrite
</I>&gt;<i>Skype
</I>&gt;<i>Pidgin
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>I know that a new mobo with more RAM would fix this, but is there a 
</I>&gt;<i>way to make the box work with less interruptions? Are there any other 
</I>&gt;<i>options/tricks other than replacing the box?
</I>
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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