Thunderbird freeze in minimal template

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So far, I have used fedora-36 as the base template for email vm and everything was fine. Now, I would like to switch to fedora-36-minimal, but here I observe an issue. Thunderbird becomes unresponsive/freezes for some time, whenever new emails are received and only when here are new emails. It usually takes around half a minute. Then the notifications show up and Thunderbird is responsive again.

  • fedora-36-minimal
  • 600 - 900 MB memory
  • Packages
    • gnome-keyring
    • qubes-core-agent-networking
    • qubes-gpg-split
    • thunderbird-qubes
    • xfce4-notifyd

Any help on figuring what is going on here and how to solve this is highly appreciated.

2

How much memory is free in the VM? How much swap is being used?

3

Memory total 822Mi, used 482Mi, free 113Mi, shared 19Mi, buff/cache 238Mi, available 207Mi
Swap total 1Gi, used 141Mi, free 882Mi

4

I hade same issues when the RAM is too low, try increasing the memory for your WM to min of 2MB. that worked for me.

5

I am confused, how could give less memory be the solution? I guess you meant 2Gi.

But then, why is it only an issue when using a minimal template and not the default one (with the same memory specs)?