[opensuse] Thunderbird cpu load.
I'm running openSuSE 11.2 Desktop is KDE. My mailer is Thunderbird 3.0.4 Thunderbird is consuming a big CPU load:
Tasks: 123 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 75.2%us, 15.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 5.0%id, 1.7%wa, 2.3%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2071508k total, 1997424k used, 74084k free, 188572k buffers Swap: 1550232k total, 5192k used, 1545040k free, 1447512k cached
1055 lajka3 20 0 474m 184m 24m S 91.7 9.1 21:50.77 thunderbird-bin 2088 root 20 0 112m 48m 7928 S 1.0 2.4 16:27.22 Xorg 7072 lajka3 20 0 116m 39m 16m S 1.0 2.0 0:14.02 konsole 1 root 20 0 1940 600 576 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.87 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.22 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.24 events/0 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
What could be the problem ?. Thanks in advance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Erik Jakobsen said the following on 06/14/2010 02:06 PM:
I'm running openSuSE 11.2 Desktop is KDE. My mailer is Thunderbird 3.0.4
Thunderbird is consuming a big CPU load:
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What could be the problem ?.
Thanks in advance
I assume you have turned off the "Global Search Indexer"? One problem is HTML mail. If you were running Firefox instead of T'Bird would you ask this? When I run FF is consumes 100% of one CPU all the time. Some graphics are animated, some of FF's icons are animated, some pages refresh or do things with javascript that consume CPU continuously. And LO! You get much the same with HTML in mail because the rendering engine is much the same. Without FF running and with only ONE HTML mail in my view set I get T'Bird eating 12%. I View -> message boy as -> plain text and even that drops until T'Bird polls my IMAP server. In that case, "netstat -p | more" will show you what T'Bird is connecting to. I suspect that T'Bird may be coded using spin-loops "for portability reasons" in some places, which will aggravate the various wait-states. But that's another matter. Turning off HTML rendering is something you have control over. How often T'Bird polls for new mail is something you have control over. The global search and indexer is something you have control over. Work on those. -- Hardware has grown following Moore's Law; software seems to be stuck with Gresham's Law. - Jim Horning, Inside Risks 133 CACM 44, 7, July 2001 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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