Hello LQ people I am moving over to Mint Linux from Windows 10, and still have a LOT to learn I started Thunderbird, and have questions
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I loaded about 80,000 emails from my POP server, and was impressed that it handled that with only a modest use of my 4GB of memory.
But if I let the system sit running for a few hours, I get a slow growth of swap space used. (Starting with almost none.) At a certain point, the growth 'exponentially' increases, and if I don't intervene, the system crashes. This problem was pretty bad on Mint 19.3 (Ubantu 5.X) and stayed with me when I upgraded to Mint 20. The latest upgrades seem less prone to this swap space creep, but it still brings down a running system after a few days on the systems that have 4GB of memory. I see less trouble with my machines with 16GB of memory. Firefox may contribute to this. . . I'll look around and see what others have to say about this.
I am a data recovery 'expert' on older Microsoft Windows products, but Windows 10's evolving system with very difficult to 'discover' new ways of doing things under the hood with each recent upgrade has caused me a LOT of grief on older more complicated systems.
The Linux environment has similar challenges, but the way things are much more out in the open, with a large number of dedicated developers, is a breath of fresh air :) I am hoping to learn enough to be able to contribute to this group, but I have a LOT to learn, first.
But if I let the system sit running for a few hours, I get a slow growth of swap space used. (Starting with almost none.) At a certain point, the growth 'exponentially' increases, and if I don't intervene, the system crashes. This problem was pretty bad on Mint 19.3 (Ubantu 5.X) and stayed with me when I upgraded to Mint 20. The latest upgrades seem less prone to this swap space creep, but it still brings down a running system after a few days on the systems that have 4GB of memory. I see less trouble with my machines with 16GB of memory. Firefox may contribute to this. . . I'll look around and see what others have to say about this.
I am a data recovery 'expert' on older Microsoft Windows products, but Windows 10's evolving system with very difficult to 'discover' new ways of doing things under the hood with each recent upgrade has caused me a LOT of grief on older more complicated systems.
The Linux environment has similar challenges, but the way things are much more out in the open, with a large number of dedicated developers, is a breath of fresh air :) I am hoping to learn enough to be able to contribute to this group, but I have a LOT to learn, first.