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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by stuxnet79 on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @02:11PM (#10657923)
Interesting story tangentially related to this question. I just finished building my new gaming rig - the only thing left is a GPU which should be coming in the mail pretty soon. The CPU I have, a core i7 4790K, has a pretty decent GPU so I was testing it out the last couple of days. The first game I tried was GTA 5. It ran smoothly (albeit at the lowest possible settings and 720p resolution). I was pretty impressed with the integrated graphics' performance. Yesterday I tried GTAV out again for a little bit and I observed that it was ... way too choppy and basically unplayable. I couldn't figure out the reason why. Then I saw that Thunderbird was the only application that was open aside from Steam and GTAV. I closed it down again and boom, back to consistently high framerates.

What is the catch here? Granted I'm using the integrated graphics that came with the CPU but I have 32 GBs of RAM. What gives!??

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by smt88 on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @02:46PM (#10658186)
How long was Thunderbird open before this happened? It could have been a memory leak, which can be really expensive when working with web-rendering software.
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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by stuxnet79 on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @04:55PM (#10659148)
It was open for a bit. This experience has made me start to question all those times I had slow-ish response times and Thunderbird was open. Slowness or game choppiness should be unacceptable given that I have a 4.0 Ghz CPU and 32 GB RAM. I guess it is time to look for a new email client :/
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