Mozilla CPU usage

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 21 01:01:31 UTC 2011


On 01/19/2011 01:45 PM, don fisher wrote:
> I just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.10. The 2.0.0.24 version of Thunderbird 
> never appeared up when I ran "top -S". Version 3 CPU usage is always 
> above 39% and sometimes up to 65%. As far as I know, Thunderbird isn't 
> doing anything except checking for new messages every 5 minutes.
> 
> Does anybody else see this? I have a laptop an that is quite a hit on 
> the battery.

Don,

I'm not getting the same.

$ top -S | grep thunderbird
15337 gg        20   0  662m 106m  29m S    0  3.6   0:04.90
thunderbird-bin
15337 gg        20   0  662m 106m  29m S    1  3.6   0:04.94
thunderbird-bin
15337 gg        20   0  662m 106m  29m S    1  3.6   0:04.96
thunderbird-bin
15337 gg        20   0  662m 106m  29m S    6  3.6   0:05.14
thunderbird-bin
15337 gg        20   0  662m 102m  29m R   23  3.5   0:05.83
thunderbird-bin
15337 gg        20   0  662m 102m  29m S    3  3.5   0:05.93
thunderbird-bin
15337 gg        20   0  662m 101m  29m S    2  3.5   0:05.98 thunderbird-bin

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208
Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7

The 23% was when I selected 'Get Mail'. Perhaps you have an add-on that
is causing the problem. You might go through and disable all of them,
then re-enable one at a time to see if that is the issue.

Gary





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