On a notebook with XP, Thunderbird started taking a long time to load. The 'total' for the inbox in the bottom right corner showed '5863' but only the received mail (81 messages)showed in the right pane. The 'total' would then increase by 50 or so intermittently and is now up to '6124' Anyone able to shed some light on this occurrence?
On 11/05/05, Gun Caundle gun@paradise.net.nz wrote:
On a notebook with XP, Thunderbird started taking a long time to load. The 'total' for the inbox in the bottom right corner showed '5863' but only the received mail (81 messages)showed in the right pane. The 'total' would then increase by 50 or so intermittently and is now up to '6124' Anyone able to shed some light on this occurrence? --
My main comment is how much memory does this XP box have as it sounds like Thunderbird is struggling with the size of it - that is a lot of messages!! If you had less than 512 MB and other programs are running then I guess it would struggle - you could notice this by task manager (press Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring it up and select from there) or you might here your disk doing lots of activity as it swaps memory out to disk.
Another thing - I presume it is on fast link?? If not e.g. modem, retail ADSL then it will take ages to download that many.
Ian
It wasn't receiving 6k+ messages, but performing like it was. On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:25 +1200, Ian McDonald wrote:
On 11/05/05, Gun Caundle gun@paradise.net.nz wrote:
On a notebook with XP, Thunderbird started taking a long time to load. The 'total' for the inbox in the bottom right corner showed '5863' but only the received mail (81 messages)showed in the right pane. The 'total' would then increase by 50 or so intermittently and is now up to '6124' Anyone able to shed some light on this occurrence? --
My main comment is how much memory does this XP box have as it sounds like Thunderbird is struggling with the size of it - that is a lot of messages!! If you had less than 512 MB and other programs are running then I guess it would struggle - you could notice this by task manager (press Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring it up and select from there) or you might here your disk doing lots of activity as it swaps memory out to disk.
Another thing - I presume it is on fast link?? If not e.g. modem, retail ADSL then it will take ages to download that many.
Ian
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