Massive memory leak in Thunderbird

[Yang]

There's a massive memory leak in the Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 that is running on my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04. After using it just a bit (in particular, after switching around folders a few times), my swap partition goes nuts, causing my system to come to a screeching pause for up to 20 minutes before things ease up (or Thunderbird is killed by the kernel). This only started happening about 2 months back or so. Let me know what further information would be helpful. Thanks in advance for any help.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu development version (10.04). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 289932, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.
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Thanks again!