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  • Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year

    From Rich@[email protected] to comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Mar 6 00:17:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:48:08 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    While I was manually running a filter in alt.comp.os.windows-10, it went
    to 6 gigns temporarily (and 100% cpu), for several minutes. Now I have
    been doing email, not usenet, and it's gone down to 2.5 gigs.

    PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
    465515 rbowman 20 0 3588388 340332 161492 S 2.3 2.2 49:53.57 thunderbird-bin


    A few things might be relevant. I don't use Thunderbird for news. Pan is using 9.6% or 1.4 G. This is the Ubuntu box and T-Bird is a snap. My
    inbox only has 4 items. Most are sorted to local folders on receipt and I delete junk aggressively.

    Meanwhile, tin is using a mere 77M of virtual, 45M of resident, zero
    swap to read news here.
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  • From not@[email protected] (Computer Nerd Kev) to comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Mar 7 08:05:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    Rich <[email protected]d> wrote:
    rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:48:08 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    While I was manually running a filter in alt.comp.os.windows-10, it went >>> to 6 gigns temporarily (and 100% cpu), for several minutes. Now I have
    been doing email, not usenet, and it's gone down to 2.5 gigs.

    PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
    COMMAND
    465515 rbowman 20 0 3588388 340332 161492 S 2.3 2.2 49:53.57
    thunderbird-bin

    A few things might be relevant. I don't use Thunderbird for news. Pan is
    using 9.6% or 1.4 G. This is the Ubuntu box and T-Bird is a snap. My
    inbox only has 4 items. Most are sorted to local folders on receipt and I >> delete junk aggressively.

    Meanwhile, tin is using a mere 77M of virtual, 45M of resident, zero
    swap to read news here.

    Here on my PC with 80MB RAM total, Tin is using 4MB of virtual
    and 4MB of resident. But it's only set to show (and filter) the
    latest 500 messages in each group.
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  • From Rich@[email protected] to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Mar 8 03:05:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    Computer Nerd Kev <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Rich <[email protected]d> wrote:
    rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:48:08 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    While I was manually running a filter in alt.comp.os.windows-10, it went >>>> to 6 gigns temporarily (and 100% cpu), for several minutes. Now I have >>>> been doing email, not usenet, and it's gone down to 2.5 gigs.

    PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
    COMMAND
    465515 rbowman 20 0 3588388 340332 161492 S 2.3 2.2 49:53.57
    thunderbird-bin

    A few things might be relevant. I don't use Thunderbird for news. Pan is >>> using 9.6% or 1.4 G. This is the Ubuntu box and T-Bird is a snap. My
    inbox only has 4 items. Most are sorted to local folders on receipt and I >>> delete junk aggressively.

    Meanwhile, tin is using a mere 77M of virtual, 45M of resident, zero
    swap to read news here.

    Here on my PC with 80MB RAM total, Tin is using 4MB of virtual
    and 4MB of resident. But it's only set to show (and filter) the
    latest 500 messages in each group.

    tin here is 64-bit, which does expand the memory size a little (64-bit pointers are 2x the size of 32-bit ones) and I do not have it limited
    to only X messages per group. So both those account for some of the
    memory difference.
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