Category Archives: Misc

How to log connection errors in Thunderbird

How to enable logging on mozilla thunderbird?

This is how to temporatly allow logging of thunderbird imap4, php3 or smtp connection events to a file to find out why things don’t work as expected.
The only permanent changes it makes, is the creation of your logfile… the logging mode will turn off, as soon as you close thunderbird and the commandline.

Open your commandline and type in these settings: Continue reading

How to view memory usage on linux?

On linux you can use different tools like the top command to view the memory usage of all processes.

This topĀ command has different options bound to the keyboard.
Here are some:

To change the sort to Memory, you can press shift M
to change the process scaling you can press small “e
to hange for the global view you can press shifte