I'm transitioning to Leopard Server from Solaris and have noticed
that Apple Mail is a complete and total memory hog. I've got 4 GB
RAM on a brand-new MacPro. As soon as I fire up Mail, it consumes
all of the available memory and the system grinds to a halt. I see
minimal CPU activity, but the machine is sluggish as molasses. I've
switched to Thunderbird and don't see this behavior at all. Since
this is a brand new machine, there's almost no mail on it.
Anyone have any ideas what's going on here? Or how to improve the
situation?
Hello Benn,
I would be very happy to be of some help, but you are describing
something I've never met (I recently fully moved to Mail, with various
pop and imap accounts, and lots of mailboxes; up to now, Mail doesn't
seem to behave especially badly).
Could you be somewhat more specific about your setup? Perhaps do you
have some corrupted, badly imported mailboxes? Or perhaps is the OS
(more specifically, mds) just indexing a huge amount of emails for the
first time?
(I know, this is a server list, but... well...)
