Dylan once wrote, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" and you don't need to be a genius to figure out that the Thunderbird 2.0 Beta has a major league memory leak.
I've reported that after a period of initial stability, the Beta has entered a period where it has been crashing several times a day. Even when not crashing, it can't walk and chew gum at the same time much of the time, or get email and have you write one at the same time.
Further, the longer it's open, the worse the problem gets and it starts to overheat when it gets hits over 100,000 K of memory use.
As the picture shows (Every picture tells a story don't it), Thunderbird was overheating this morning when I took this picture, and I was not surprised when it crashed soon after. This is not a new issue and I'm hoping (I'm dreaming, I'm praying) that the programmers fix this soon.
4/28/08 Note: I noticed a ton of traffic to this post today and I just want to point out that I posted this more than a year ago. I've since stopped using Thunderbird, so I can't say if it's still an issue. Just wanted new readers to be aware of this.
Have the same issue here.
Version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)
Have seen memory use over 350 kB!
It remains stable though.. 0 crashes and have been using it for weeks now.
Posted by: M | June 07, 2007 at 06:23 PM
I have the same problem on Windows XP + Thunderbird - huge memory consumption kills my old PC. I know that in many configurations works ok but not on my :-(
Posted by: Pisklak | March 15, 2008 at 08:23 AM