thunderbird at ~30% cpu

[Jared Norris]

On 22 August 2012 06:39, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Thufir wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:38:11 +0100, sam tygier wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I notice that most complaints about thunderbird are from laptop/
>> portables.  Dunno why, but it stopped.  I guess it was re-indexing or
>> something, seems to have stopped.
>>
>>
>> -Thufir
>
>
> Was this on imap? I found that too if it was. I also found Evolution gave
> similar trouble. As a result i gave up using a graphical email client, tried
> Mutt and settled with Alpine. Alpine i must say i think is superb.
>
> james
>
>
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After the initial sync (which is obviously required if I want access
to older mail) I've never had issues. You have to expect the initial
sync to take a bit of effort, it's generally downloading a fair amount
of data and trying to keep it catalogued for you to see what's there.


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Jared Norris
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