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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Use of resources by TB on my main Mageia box</H1>
<B>Marc Paré</B>
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<I>Wed Nov 7 20:07:48 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>Hi Remmy,
Le 2012-11-07 06:08, Remco Rijnders a écrit :
><i> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:18:27AM -0500, Marc wrote in
</I>><i> <k7dchi$7lc$<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">1 at ger.gmane.org</A>>:
</I>>><i> I was just wondering if there was an easy fix to this.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I use Thunderbird on my main box to help run a webzine. I have
</I>>><i> Thunderbird receiving and fetching mail from various locations and
</I>>><i> receive approximately over +1500 emails per day (some days 3,000). So,
</I>>><i> Thunderbird is pretty busy.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> When I monitor the use of resources, TB can go from using practically
</I>>><i> no resources to 80-90% resources. This has the effect of making my
</I>>><i> Mageia box "freeze" temporarily when TB is gobbling up a lot of
</I>>><i> resources. I have been ignoring this when working with other software
</I>>><i> as I know that 5-6 seconds later TB generally releases enough
</I>>><i> resources for the other programmes to work. The whole setup makes for
</I>>><i> a lot of hiccups when in use. Although, the board is really reliable.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> My Mobo: ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800
</I>>><i> RAM: 2 gig (Mobo RAM max is 2 gig so I can't add more)
</I>>><i> AGP Card: GeForce 7300GT
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I usually need the following software open to work with:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> FF
</I>>><i> KWrite
</I>>><i> Skype
</I>>><i> Pidgin
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I know that a new mobo with more RAM would fix this, but is there a
</I>>><i> way to make the box work with less interruptions? Are there any other
</I>>><i> options/tricks other than replacing the box?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Hi Marc,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Have you tried lowering the priority of the thunderbird process? See
</I>><i> 'man nice' for how to do this.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Remmy
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Thanks for the reply.
No, I haven't tried this. Is there a way to do this with some kind of
GUI piece of software? I usually try to find ways to work on Mageia in a
way that any user could manage; most users will prefer to do this in a
GUI-visual-way.
Cheers,
Marc
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