slimjet browser not responding and thunderbird slow

[bitsnpcs]

Hello TMG1961,

have you compacted your databases in Thunderbird recently ?
To do, in left pane underneath your email address it says inbox, right click your inbox and select "Compact" from the Menu.
You should compact the databases for each inbox/email account in Thunderbird.

To try and find the bottleneck -
you can see which Tasks are running by - Menu>System>Task Manager
you can see Resource Usage by - Menu>System>Resource Usage

Do you have any plugins running in Thunderbird, or do you it synced ?
I notice there were slowness issues mentioned on an older Ubuntu thread with cause being when running anti virus and Thunderbird on Linux.

I notice this link
on the final bullet point of Common Problems section it talks about - "If you are using Linux... try setting layers.prefer-opengl true instead....."
and also some other things to try such as changing to SilverMel theme
This final bullet point is only a small sized paragraph, but it is about things I do not understand, maybe you will understand it better when reading it.

Edit -
This link
explains about compacting Thunderbird folders, and also has a tutorial on how to set up automated compacting in future to your own specified parameters

[TMG1961]

I did run a memtest86 and memory passedwithout any errors.
Did enable zRam but it did not improve boottime for thunderbird and the problems with multiple tbs also still remains.
I do a cleanup every evening before going to bed.

Not sure what the problem is. Is there anything else i can try to figure out what the bottleneck is?

[bitsnpcs]

At the moment i am not able to try it with a live medium, so this option will have to wait untill i get a new usb drive.
I tried preload apps but i dont see a difference in loading time.
Havent run the memtest86 yet, will give it a run later today when i get back home

Hello TMG1961,

I know you are familiar with Lite tweaks , the screenshot helps me to write a bit clearer sometimes.
When you get back home can you try the Clean Tasks in Lite Tweaks, zRam, and the Memtest86 to check ram modules. Hope you have a good day.
If it is possible to rule out some hardware issues, accumulated things, it gives a place to move on from.

• Underneath the column named Task (#1 above), some say Clean (example #3a above)
• Underneath the column named Grade (#2 above) some say Safe (example #3b above)
• Tick to Select all Rows where it says both Clean, and Safe (example Row #3a and #3b above)

Are you using zRAM currently ?
If you are not, in Menu>System>Lite Tweaks can you -

• scroll to the bottom of Lite Tweaks
• select zRam by ticking it
• enable zRam by clicking the Begin button at the bottom right

Has zRam improved things in this instance ?

[TMG1961]

Hello TMG1961,

I haven't used this browser myself.

I have a few ideas -

1 - try a live medium LL, with the browser and Thunderbird to compare the opening times of new LL and current install, I understand the live media loads slower so if the browser and thunderbird are loading faster on live media then its a good indication it is not hardware issues.

2 - to run Memtest86.

3 -  Menu>Lite Tweaks to do the clean tasks ? (browser cache, thumbnail cache etc.). Also Lite Tweaks "Preload Apps" for faster start up ?

At the moment i am not able to try it with a live medium, so this option will have to wait untill i get a new usb drive.
I tried preload apps but i dont see a difference in loading time.
Havent run the memtest86 yet, will give it a run later today when i get back home

[bitsnpcs]

Hello TMG1961,

I haven't used this browser myself.

I have a few ideas -

1 - try a live medium LL, with the browser and Thunderbird to compare the opening times of new LL and current install, I understand the live media loads slower so if the browser and thunderbird are loading faster on live media then its a good indication it is not hardware issues.

2 - to run Memtest86.

3 -  Menu>Lite Tweaks to do the clean tasks ? (browser cache, thumbnail cache etc.). Also Lite Tweaks "Preload Apps" for faster start up ?

[TMG1961]

I am using slimjet browser. All is fine as long as i use 1 or 2 tabs. If i open more then the browser completely freezes up and cpu usage goes all the way up to 100% ad stays there. I then have to wait till all the tabs are loaded before i can do anything.


Second problem is starting of thunderbird. It takes very long to open. It used to be fast but the last weeks it is getting slower and slower.


Anyone got any ideas on both problems?