thunderbird pegs and hogs hard drive disc io

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Pete - you inadvertently replied to me, and not the list...

On 3/15/15 11:09 AM, Pete Smout wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2015 14:30, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 3/14/15 4:06 PM, thufir wrote:
>>> I switched pc's, so Thunderbird has to download n e-mails for imap
>>> archive, and this both takes time and hogs resources.  Ok, that's fine.
>>>
>>> However, it renders this pc unusable to the point where I left it for an
>>> hour, still the hard drive was pegged to the point where the console
>>> wouldn't respond, I had to use REISUB.  Also, the disc was under so much
>>> usage that it was a bit alarming.
>>>
>>> I want thunderbird to download archives, I have it set to just archive
>>> the last few days, but downloads headers.  How can I limit this?
>>>
>>> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
>>>
>>> iotop showed thundebird, and, oddly, firefox -- both at 99% or so of
>>> resources.  I put it almost entirely down to thunderbird.
>>>
>>> I've rebooted, and am going to go through tbird to make sure it's not
>>> trying to archive everything, but this seems a bit unprecedented.  Any
>>> pointers/logs to look at/etc?
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> Thufir
>>>
>>>
>> I doubt it's Thunderbird. Just did a similar situation, except I didn't
>> have Firefox running, and all was fine. What web pages had you opened?
>> Maybe a Firefox plugin gone bad?
>>
>>   
> Hi,
> Just to put my five eggs in. I have noticed Thunderbird  not awaking  properly  after suspend.  In that it becomes completely  unresponsive and hogs ram memory.
> I have no idea if this  is related but it happens  on both my regular  machines one running 14.04 and the other  running  crunch bang, so I shall watch this thread  with interest
>
> Regards
>
> Pete S


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