286091 - runaway thead, high cpu usage

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric J. Schwarzenbach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

I'm posting this as a new issue because I cannot tell if it is the same as one
of the other CPU usage issues. The situation seems slightly different than the
descriptions I've read, but of course it's hard to be certain what is static and
what key circumstance.

Basically I find, now and then, that Thunderbird is sucking up most of my CPU
cycles. I'm not sure if this gradual and progressive or if some event brings it
on suddenly. But I find my PC acting sluggish, check Task Manager and find
Thunderbird hovering around 98%; by then I don't know if it was from the last
thing I did in Thunderbird (or remember what that might be). Thunderbird is not
"hung" in this state, it still functions.

I don't know if this is relevant but I have several POP accounts configured,
only use 2 of them. The first one is on autocheck, the second is not. Both have
several thousand messages in their inbox (an estimate, I'm not sure how to get a
count). I routinely have Thunderbird running for days at a time. I think the
last time it occurred it had been up for a day and a half or so, but the time it
takes is not consistant or predictable.

If there is a way to attach it, I could sumbit a screen shot of TaskInfo showing
 the list threads in the Thunderbird process and which is the naughty one.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Comment 1

[Eric J. Schwarzenbach]

Attachment: screenshot of threads and cpu usage

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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