I tried the free version.
I set up to my gmail account. It has 42k mails.
When poppeeper starts up, it loads all the mail headers consuming 100% of 1 cpu core for minutes and 240 MB's of RAM. I think this is not what I'm expecting from a simple notifier.
High memory usage
Re: High memory usage
Welcome to the forum vizimajac,
I'm sure Jeff (POP Peeper developer) will have much more to say on the subject in as much, for one thing, there are settings that can mitigate processing time (i.e. cpu, memory usage) for POP Peeper.
That said, I would make just one point and that is to say, the very first time POP Peeper does a "mail check" for "new" messages (upon first installing POP Peeper) will not in any way be characteristic of when POP Peeper processes a "mail check" going forward once the POP Peeper Inbox has been populated with all of the messages that have accumulated over a considerable number of years (as in this case when all 42K messages are processed during the initial "mail check"). Once the initial "mail check" has been completed you should be noticing an entirely different experience from-then-on-out each time POP Peeper does a "mail check" for any "new" messages (that is, subsequent to initially installing POP Peeper).
I'm sure Jeff (POP Peeper developer) will have much more to say on the subject in as much, for one thing, there are settings that can mitigate processing time (i.e. cpu, memory usage) for POP Peeper.
That said, I would make just one point and that is to say, the very first time POP Peeper does a "mail check" for "new" messages (upon first installing POP Peeper) will not in any way be characteristic of when POP Peeper processes a "mail check" going forward once the POP Peeper Inbox has been populated with all of the messages that have accumulated over a considerable number of years (as in this case when all 42K messages are processed during the initial "mail check"). Once the initial "mail check" has been completed you should be noticing an entirely different experience from-then-on-out each time POP Peeper does a "mail check" for any "new" messages (that is, subsequent to initially installing POP Peeper).
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Re: High memory usage
Here are some suggestions:
1) Clean out your inbox. Regardless of what email client you decide to use, this will always be the most efficient solution. gmail.com makes it very easy to select all messages in your inbox with a couple of clicks and then you can move them into a different folder.
2) You can limit the number of messages that POP Peeper retrieves. Globally, this is under:
main menu: Tools / Options / Message Retrieval
It can also be changed per-account on the "Advanced" page (Advanced Options is necessary under Tools / Options / General)
Keep in mind that when you delete messages, old messages may re-appear in PP's list, and if those messages are unread, PP will notify them as new, which can obviously be confusing. The solution to this is to create a rule that will "ignore" older messages; however, if you keep all your old messages as read, then you don't need to worry about this.
1) Clean out your inbox. Regardless of what email client you decide to use, this will always be the most efficient solution. gmail.com makes it very easy to select all messages in your inbox with a couple of clicks and then you can move them into a different folder.
2) You can limit the number of messages that POP Peeper retrieves. Globally, this is under:
main menu: Tools / Options / Message Retrieval
It can also be changed per-account on the "Advanced" page (Advanced Options is necessary under Tools / Options / General)
Keep in mind that when you delete messages, old messages may re-appear in PP's list, and if those messages are unread, PP will notify them as new, which can obviously be confusing. The solution to this is to create a rule that will "ignore" older messages; however, if you keep all your old messages as read, then you don't need to worry about this.
Re: High memory usage
Noticing this today on Win 11 x64. I've deleted all folders from under mail accounts and it made no difference. This amount of memory in use seems excessive. Please advise, thanks.
EDIT:
1. Stopping/restarting PP did not change the memory in use
2. Running MS PC Manager "Boost" memory function reduced PP usage to 7 MB
EDIT:
1. Stopping/restarting PP did not change the memory in use
2. Running MS PC Manager "Boost" memory function reduced PP usage to 7 MB
Re: High memory usage
The previous reply still applies.
How many total messages do you have in POP Peeper? There is a direct correlation with the total number of messages to how much memory PP uses.
That being said, I am actually shocked that Microsoft made a utility to "boost" your memory. It is snake oil. It actually degrades performance.
Your TaskManager shows that you are only using 26% of your total memory. As they say -- unused RAM is wasted RAM. Windows caches memory so that programs run more efficiently. If some program needs more RAM than the system currently has free, then Windows will swap some unused program's memory to virtual memory (which is *much* slower than physical ram, although much faster nowadays with SSD's) as needed. And that's all that these so-called "memory boosters" are doing -- they're moving memory out of RAM to slow virtual memory. And if the program needs to access that memory, Windows will have to move it back to physical RAM. That's why using these so-called "memory boosters" will make performance worse.
More than likely, you'd see that number drop eventually, as Windows determines what memory really needs to be allocated. But, you really should just let Windows handle the memory management on its own.
Since you have plenty of RAM, you shouldn't even pay attention to memory usage (I'd be lying if I said I didn't myself, but I find it interesting; though if you really want to learn how Windows handles memory, you should use Resource Monitor and not Task Manager).
Fwiw, v6 will actually optimize RAM better (and also make more RAM available to it).
How many total messages do you have in POP Peeper? There is a direct correlation with the total number of messages to how much memory PP uses.
That being said, I am actually shocked that Microsoft made a utility to "boost" your memory. It is snake oil. It actually degrades performance.
Your TaskManager shows that you are only using 26% of your total memory. As they say -- unused RAM is wasted RAM. Windows caches memory so that programs run more efficiently. If some program needs more RAM than the system currently has free, then Windows will swap some unused program's memory to virtual memory (which is *much* slower than physical ram, although much faster nowadays with SSD's) as needed. And that's all that these so-called "memory boosters" are doing -- they're moving memory out of RAM to slow virtual memory. And if the program needs to access that memory, Windows will have to move it back to physical RAM. That's why using these so-called "memory boosters" will make performance worse.
More than likely, you'd see that number drop eventually, as Windows determines what memory really needs to be allocated. But, you really should just let Windows handle the memory management on its own.
Since you have plenty of RAM, you shouldn't even pay attention to memory usage (I'd be lying if I said I didn't myself, but I find it interesting; though if you really want to learn how Windows handles memory, you should use Resource Monitor and not Task Manager).
Fwiw, v6 will actually optimize RAM better (and also make more RAM available to it).
Re: High memory usage
Thanks for your reply. I'll not worry about it, but I thought it odd that so much memory is in use by PP particularly when I have no messages. I'll look forward to v6.