thunderbird at ~30% cpu

[sam tygier]

On 15/08/12 11:20, Thufir wrote:
> For hours, thunderbird has been at ~30%cpu, until I used cpulimit to 
> bring it down a bit.  It's still always running and using the CPU, for 
> hours on end.
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> I just upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04.
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> It's an unanswered question on askubuntu:
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> http://askubuntu.com/questions/133440/thunderbird-cpu-usage
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> thanks,
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> Thufir
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on my netbook i get huge cpu usage from thunderbird due to the animated progress bar. if i hide the status bar ( View->Toolbar->Status bar ), then the cpu usage drops off almost completely.

Sam