Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-05-26 12:28:43) > On my netbook, Thunderbird seems really unstable, it stars up fine > then seems to stall and fails to respond, it eventually picks up. I > usually goto a terminal and type killall thunderbird. > > I can usually also minimise thunderbird, but maximising it, ends up > with the top of the application bar only and the rest of the > application is not maximised properly. > > Is there a program that I can run to try and figure out what it is > doing ? I am sure there is but not sure what I would be looking for > even with searching. > > In a similar way to using time, which tells how long a program has > run for, I guess I need some sort of memory or cpu trace to see what > Thunderbird is doing to behave this way. > > Chances are it will be rather incomprehensible, but at least it could > be something I can post here, ( well pastebin if huge output ) so > others can take a look. > > In the meantime I have removed my usenet account from the netbook, as > i don't use it, on the netbook enough to justify having.
To monitor in real time what steal most ressources, install and run atop. Hit C/M/D/N to sort by cpu/memory/disk/net, or A to auto-sort. To monitor both in real time and collect data in the background to later analysis (e.g. to examine past minutes _after_ Thunderbird has crashed), install pcp and run "pcp atop" for real time view To inspect what happens with Thunderbird itself, I guess you should look in the menus of the application for ways to open a log window... - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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