A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 234
PerfProtector writes "Did you recently install Thunderbird 3 or upgrade from Thunderbird 2 to Thunderbird 3? Did you notice any severe slowdown in your machine or a major decrease in its performance? Well, many people around the world encountered these problems. We wrote a technical analysis about the severe problems that are caused by Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client. These problems include anomalous usage of CPU, memory, hard disk and Internet bandwidth. You can read the full analysis, including several graphs that show how bad the situation is and what went wrong from Thunderbird 2 to Thunderbird 3. For example, while CPU utilization of Thunderbird 2 is usually between 0% to 10%, with an average of 0.3%, Thunderbird 3 CPU utilization is between 5% to 80%, with an average of 30% — 100 times more than Thunderbird 2. In addition, during long periods of time, Thunderbird 3 used more than 50% of the overall CPU resources.This behavior slows dramatically the whole machine." It's worth noting that this analysis comes from developers who have developed a (freeware) tool they claim will improve Thunderbird's performance, but they explain also how to do so with manual changes.
stupid propritary (Score:5, Funny)
This is why all software you use must be open source, this wouldn't happen if people were able to get in and see the code that is actually causing the problems
Thunderbird 3 is *much* faster! (Score:5, Funny)
It can go into orbit!
Thunderbird 2 is heavy and can only go supersonic!
There's no contest! What planet are you guys on?
Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_machines [wikipedia.org]
Re:99 times more average CPU usage, not 100 times (Score:4, Funny)
I suspect you are 99 times more pedantic than the article writer :)
Thunderbirds - 2 vs 3 (Score:2, Funny)
Thunderbird 2 is a heavy lift loader VTOL craft with a large payload bay.
Thunderbird 3 is an orbit capable single stage rocket that could land in its vertical takeoff position.\
http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Thunderbirds/ThunderbirdsGallery.htm [dan-dare.org]
somebody had to do it.
Re:Indexing (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds like it's been written by an Indian. "Please to be ignoring definite article".
Re:Thunderbird 3 is *much* faster! (Score:3, Funny)
Actually I remember reading a 21st Century comic that had T2's engines getting stuck on full throttle, and it went into orbit, and they had to send T3 after it.
But I also remember that the top speed of T2 was quoted as 5000 mph (cf T1 top speed of 15000 mph) both presumably in the atmosphere)
I don't think Gerry Anderson ever did any wind tunnel tests on his models...