On 16/02/2014 1:28 PM, OldGuy wrote:
Win 7 Pro all updates
TB latest version

PC = Intel Quad 3GHz 8GRAM, 500MB free C:

It is because I have so many eMails with 150K attachements that are
downloading.

TB programmers need to release more code time to the system (allowing TB
to multitask) during such downloads. Maybe TB only uses a few threads??

I have a similar problem with Tbird. It will sometimes just freeze for
about 10 seconds while I'm in the middle of writing a message, like this
one. I have desktop gadgets that show me disk and processor activity,
and initially I thought maybe it's accessing the disk for some reason,
but it's doesn't seem to be disk activity at all. Instead, I see
processor activity just spike on one core for the duration of time that
the freeze occurs. I got six-cores, so why doesn't Tbird know how to
distribute itself better over the multiple cores? I also notice the
Tbird's memory utilization just keeps growing and growing the longer you
keep it open. I had 8 GB's previously, and I saw once it had used up 6
of the 8GB, just by itself. I have now upgraded to 16GB, but the memory
utilization is still heavy. It didn't matter if I ran the thing on an
SSD or a regular HDD, the freezes still happened. Running newsgroups has
made the Tbird profile absolutely directory massive, with lots (100's of
thousands) of big and little files. I think Tbird is more unstable when
running newsgroups than when not, the developers seem to have little to
no interest in fixing newsgroup support in Tbird.

Win 7 Ult x86
PC = AMD Phenom II X6 1100T, 16GB DDR3. Lot's of space on the drive
that's its on.

Yousuf Khan