Thunderbird takes too much RAM

[J44xm]

I tried Thunderbird (I still have it), but it took up 25MB of RAM as
opposed to Pegasus Mail's 12MB. What's that about?

 

[Kerodo]

I tried Thunderbird (I still have it), but it took up 25MB of RAM as
opposed to Pegasus Mail's 12MB. What's that about?

Both Firefox and Thunderbird are supposed to be lean and mean, but I
find them to be very slow and resource hogs compared to other programs..

 

[Tiger]

Both Firefox and Thunderbird are supposed to be lean and mean, but
I find them to be very slow and resource hogs compared to other
programs..

Win98se: Firefox - 11.4 mb
Thunderbird - 10.2 mb

 

[Kerodo]

Win98se: Firefox - 11.4 mb
Thunderbird - 10.2 mb

Win2k: Mozilla - 67 megs. The clear winner...

 

[Michael Forsythe]

Win2k: Mozilla - 67 megs. The clear winner...

WinXP - Mozilla 1.7b: 28.9mb (browser, mail & news, address book,
composer, and chatzilla)

 

[Canetoad]

WinXP - Mozilla 1.7b: 28.9mb (browser, mail & news, address book,
composer, and chatzilla)

WinXP, Mozilla 1.1 (as above) 57.2mb. Does this depend on the size of
your cache, folders etc. or has it got leaner as it has matured?

 

[Kerodo]

WinXP, Mozilla 1.1 (as above) 57.2mb. Does this depend on the size of
your cache, folders etc. or has it got leaner as it has matured?

I think it depends on how long it's been running.. it's usage of ram
grows with time. My 67 megs above was Mozilla 1.7b rc1.

 

[benny]

Win2k: Mozilla - 67 megs. The clear winner...

Win2K
K-Meleon: 17 Mb (webpage loaded).
Pegasus: 7.1 Mb

benny

 

[Christopher Jahn]

WinXP, Mozilla 1.1 (as above) 57.2mb. Does this depend on
the size of your cache, folders etc. or has it got leaner
as it has matured?

It has gotten leaner as it matures. Faster too.

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[dadiOH]

I tried Thunderbird (I still have it), but it took up 25MB of RAM as
opposed to Pegasus Mail's 12MB. What's that about?

What difference does it make if you like the program? You bought RAM to use
it, right? You aren't going to run out, swap file assures that.

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[null]

What difference does it make if you like the program? You bought RAM to use
it, right? You aren't going to run out, swap file assures that.

I just checked Mozilla 1.6 RAM useage using AIDA32 on Windows ME. I
leave Moz in memory all the time for quick starting.

With neither browser nor email selected, RAM useage is 16 meg.
Activating the browser increases the number slightly.
Activating email increases RAM useage to 18.5 meg

Pegasus uses 12.3 meg


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