FOOTPRINT METRICS


BUILD: 11-27-2001
Windows 98, Pentium 266, 128 megs of RAM.
Program I used to gather the app's memory usage was called Task Info 2000.
POP3 account
* Startup was taken from Tasks | Mail & Newsgroups

Definitions:

Total KB - Total amount of memory in use by the process

Everything is in kilobytes (KB)

I only ever switched between 3 folders:

F1=1000 messages, local
F2=Trash folder, local & empty
F3=10 15K message local Inbox

CRITERIA
Total KB
From Tasks | Mail & Newsgroups, load the Account Central page
33, 744
Load a 1,000 message local folder
34, 280
Switch to a 10 message (19K each) folder
34, 780
Read 1 (19K) message
35, 288
Read remaining 9 (19K each) messages
35, 300
Batch delete 10 19K messages
35, 332
Choose Search | Search Messages (on the 10 19K message folder)
35, 484
Enter 're' as subject criteria, and hit enter. This generated 163 results.
35, 664
Close search window
35, 536
Click Compose (HTML)
37, 260
Close Compose window
36, 988