thunderbird at ~30% cpu

[James Freer]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Jared Norris wrote:

> 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

> 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.
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Jared Norris

What i found was that it was slow initially as you say but then when one 
actually reads several emails it's still a bit slow compared with text only 
clients which are instant.

james