That's most likely your problem. Simply put - and regardless of what *should* be the case - Thunderbird is *not* stable enough to leave running 'forever'. In fact, it gets really unstable for me after a day or two. I recommend restarting it at least once per day.
On 12/03/2010 03:47 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: that is a valid issue.. I know iceweasel, & other programs have the same problem, eventually, they either eat up all the CPU, Memory, or just crash. Gee, this is almost like windows, lets reboot every day, just because:)
well, as you can see, my uptime is way larger than thunderbirds uptime:) $ uptime 15:54:03 up 24 days, 4:28, 4 users, load average: 2.34, 1.72, 1.30 pbc@paulandcilla:~$ ps -ef|grep thunderbird pbc 13142 1 0 Dec02 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /home/pbc/Documents/software/thunderbird-3.1.6/thunderbird/thunderbird pbc 13145 13142 0 Dec02 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /home/pbc/Documents/software/thunderbird-3.1.6/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh /home/pbc/Documents/software/thunderbird-3.1.6/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin pbc 13149 13145 1 Dec02 ? 00:16:53 /home/pbc/Documents/software/thunderbird-3.1.6/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
yeah, running real thunderbird on Debian..
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