Date: 2005-12-12 05:25 pm (UTC)
I've also been having some annoying computer issues - Charlotte's RAM suddenly went from 340-something MB to 128MB overnight for no discernable reason

Do you use Mozilla Thunderbird for email? [livejournal.com profile] bovil posted the following this evening:

note to self... that "compact folders" option in the file menu of Mozilla Thunderbird is important when you're using IMAP. Run it at least once a month...


Apparently the folders have a tendency to bloat if not compacted regularly. His were bloated to about 16 times the total size of the actual messages contained therein.
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