Thunderbird eating CPU.

[joneall]

For several days now, my Thunderbird has been hanging, Each time, top shows it is using almost 100% of CPU. This seems to be a common problem and I have tried some of the solutions proposed:

- change mail.db.idle_limit from 300000 to 30000000 (after sweating just to find the config editor in t-bird)
- compacting folders

all to no avail. I would love to fix this. If not, I'll have to look for another mailer. Evolution in KDE?

[Snowhog]

Have you tried creating a new user and logging in with that, then trying Thunderbird in that new User account? What you want to be doing is eliminating (or confirming) that it is (or is not) something amiss in your User account, and not Thunderbird itself.

[joneall]

I have four user accounts defined, all logged in all the time. That's one of the strong points of t-bird, you can do that. Sure, I can define a new user, but it would be logged in along with the other four. I suppose I could use a separate t-bird profile, empty to start. Or I could try it on another computer, for instance, with windoze.