Translations:Plugin:TabSRMM/Tips/17/en

The global option for this feature can be found on the Message sessions → Message log page (at the very bottom) and there is also a per contact setting in the User Preferences dialog which you can reach from the contacts menu. This option may save memory for people which rarely close their message windows. It trims the content of the message window so that only the X most recent messages are in the log – older messages will be cut of from the beginning of the message log. Of course, this only affects the message window – the feature will not delete messages from the database. If you don't close your message windows often, the chat history may grow immensely thus eating a lot of memory (especially when you use emoticons, because each smiley image consumes quite some memory). This option can help in reducing the memory requirements as it limits the number of messages which can be seen in the message log.