[arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage -> 100%

[Baho Utot]

On 08/08/2012 09:33 AM, Adam Sparks wrote:
> I saw an email just like this like week and made a switch to chromium.
> There is a difference. Especially when opening a new window, Firefox has
> some very large spikes. Don't use Thunderbird so I cannot say anything
> about that.
> On Aug 8, 2012 6:30 AM, "Thaddeus Nielsen" <thaddeus.nielsen at gmx.us> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:34:14 -0500
>> "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>>     I have watched this in top for the past week or so. Thunderbird
>>> and Firefox are causing X cpu usage to shoot upt to between 80-100%
>>> on simple tasks like scrolling a message list in tbird or simply
>>> opening css menus in firefox. All of this used to be instantaneous
>>> and never cause the cpu to bat an eye. But now, it is very pronounced
>>> and brings the desktop to a crawl. This box is not a screamer, but
>>> plenty fast, P4 2800/4G/Nvidia 8600GT.
>>>
>>>     How do I determine what is causing this? X? ff/tb? something
>>> else?  Any ideas appreciated. Thanks.
>>>
>> My suggestion: remove firefox and install firefox from mozilla.com.
>> When a similar experience occurred for me, I did that and found that
>> the response was much better in the version from mozilla.com.
>>
>>          T.
>>
What version of thunderbird where you using?

I have 13.0

top - 12:45:03 up 3 min,  4 users,  load average: 0.94, 0.50, 0.21
Tasks: 198 total,   2 running, 196 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  6.4%us,  1.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 90.0%id,  1.0%wa,  0.6%hi, 0.3%si,  
0.0%st
Cpu1  :  2.7%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.7%hi, 1.3%si,  
0.0%st
Cpu2  :  1.3%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Cpu3  :  4.0%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:   8175488k total,  1164556k used,  7010932k free,    30860k buffers
Swap: 10485756k total,        0k used, 10485756k free,   453308k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ COMMAND
  1341 root      20   0  194m  44m   9m S  4.0  0.6   0:07.40 X
  1834 user     20   0  926m 109m  36m S  3.3  1.4   0:06.86 thunderbird

This is the most cpu that thunderbird uses