1108232 - [REGRESSION] thunderbird consuming 50% all the time while totally idle. Even after restart

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[teo8976]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

simply launched TB


Actual results:

TB is consuming more than 30% CPU all the time, often more than 50%, while it's doing absolutely nothing. It's not downloading messages or compacting folders. I'm not touching it, just leaving it open. It's been so for hours, and restarting it twice hasn't fixed the issue.

This is new. Never happened before, that I remember


Expected results:

When doing nothing, TB should consume very little more than 0% CPU.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Gloda indexing perhaps? (Preferences | Advanced | Enable Global Search and Indexer)
Or an extension? Tried in -safe-mode?

Comment 2

[teo8976]

It stopped after a while (I forgot to mention I had restarted TB several times to no effect).

I don't think I have any extension. Probably the global indexer then (it's enabled). 
If that is the case, it's great that it does the indexing job in the background, but there should definitely be an indicator telling you it's doing something.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #1)
> Gloda indexing perhaps? (Preferences | Advanced | Enable Global Search and
> Indexer)
historically, gloda does not have lingering CPU, unless it's a new install where huge amounts user's mail recently downloaded.


(In reply to teo8976 from comment #2)
> It stopped after a while (I forgot to mention I had restarted TB several
> times to no effect).
> 
> I don't think I have any extension. 

still, you should try safe mode :)
And, did this happen in version 24?


> Probably the global indexer then (it's enabled). 

Again, unlikely. However, CPU usage seems to be a frequent issue on linux systems.

> If that is the case, it's great that it does the indexing job in the
> background, but there should definitely be an indicator telling you it's
> doing something.

Tools | activity manager

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Please get a short profile and post the link here. Thanks
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance/Reporting_a_Thunderbird_Performance_Problem_with_G

Comment 5

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard