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

[PyroPeter]

On 08/08/2012 03:20 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> On 08/08/2012 02:34 PM, David C. Rankin 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.
>>
> Same here on a fairly recent machine with an Intel GPU. I use chromium
> for web browsing and that is no problem at all there. However,
> thunderbird really doesn't like my CPU.

I can confirm that thunderbird uses 100% CPU from time to time, often
without any apparent reason. (Sometimes I didn't even look at it for
hours) Normally, it does that for about five minutes and then goes back
to sleep.

</serious-and-contructive-part>
<flame>

Thunderbird really is a big pile of crap. There are bugs everywhere! I
havn't seen something this bad since KDE 4.0. The only reason I didn't
switch to mutt yet is that I don't know how to replace the filter feature.

Regards, PyroPeter
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freenode/pyropeter                                         ETAOIN SHRDLU

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