Ubuntu
thunderbird package

  1. Bug #927515
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 927515

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Justin Warren (justin-eigenmagic) wrote : Re: thunderbird uses excessive cpu power

Some further info: My syslog was geting spammed with eCryptfs messages as per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/911507, but only when Thunderbird was in online mode.

The culprit was a zero length global-messages-db.sqlite-journal file under .thunderbird. I'd copied my .thunderbird directory from my old laptop (that wasn't using encrypted homedir) to the new laptop (which is using encrypted homedir).

Moving the file out of the way stopped the eCryptfs spam, and dropped CPU usage from about 70%+ to about 54%, which isn't melting the laptop.

Thunderbird has recreated the global-messages-db.sqlite-journal file, and it now has non-zero length. I guess what it's doing now is more normal.