Thunderbird causes high load/HD usage since upgrade to 10.10

[paul]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Since the upgrade yesterday to Ubuntu 10.10 thunderbird uses constantly 50% CPU and causes the HD to be in use all the time. This problem directly happened after the upgrade, it didnt happen prior the upgrade.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: thunderbird 3.1.4+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 11 11:15:55 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nl_NL.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

[Per Ångström (autark)]

I saw the same thing straight after upgrading from 10.04. However, after some time, 10 minutes or so, it seems to have slowed down. I think it may have been doing some indexing task.

[paul (ubuntubug-paulsohier)]

Yesterday after the upgrade thunderbird was opened for like 4-5 hours, and it wasnt slowed down, however today after around 2 hours (Was going to eat breakfast and lunch), it was slowed down indeed as well. Still sounds that it uses high load for a pretty long time.

[Per Ångström (autark)]

Thunderbird started rushing again as soon as I selected a local folder containing some 4500 saved messages.

[NewbieUser (newbieuser-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I agree, the same bug of Thunderbird slowing down affected me too right after upgrading from Lucid to Ubuntu Meerkat 10.10, it causes my system to freeze intermittently and hogs a lot of CPU.

I disabled most addons and still found the bug to persist.

Its become so annoying that I am considering moving from Thunderbird to Evolution, I really hope someone fixes this soon.

[Graham Ranger (graham-ranger)]

Same here, after the update via the web to 10.10, Thunderbird is taking about 50% of CPU. I've disabled extensions and removed/ reinstalled Thunderbird... Can I revert to the previous version?

[Graham Ranger (graham-ranger)]

Well, I have reverted to tbird 2.0.0.24, available on the tbird website, after some searching. (A 3.0 version was also available, but that kept crashing...) This is a little disappointing, however, for a new version of Ubuntu and I hope it will be fixed soon.
(Reversion is simple enough: sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/thunderbird to remove the programme, but not the mail and settings; then download, untar and move the older version to wherever you want, /usr/bin being the normal place. Mail and settings should be in a folder called .thunderbird and .mozilla-thunderbird - a link - in your home folder. The "new" thunderbird ought to find them automatically.)

[Graham Ranger (graham-ranger)]

Last update: downloading tbird 3.1.4 for linux from the mozilla tbird site rather than from the ubuntu depositories seems to have solved the cpu issue.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Of course, anybody who follows the advice in comment 7 is completely on their own, and we take absolutely no responsibility for anything bad that might happen.

Does this issue stop if you turn off the indexer in the preferences?

[Graham Ranger (graham-ranger)]

No, my Thunderbird overconsumed CPU, even when the indexer was turned off, the folders compacted and extensions removed. The bug appears to be tied to the ubuntu-specific version of tbird.
Point taken, for comment #7... it works for me, in any case.

[Graham Ranger (graham-ranger)]

Further update: a fresh install of Thunderbird via Synaptics seems to have sorted things out. CPU is now normal.

[Ferran (fompi)]

I've just upgraded 12 Ubuntu workstations and got thid problem with two of that.

Neither unchecking indexing nor starting thunderbird with and empty profile solved the issue, i had to install thunderbird from the mozilla ppa:

add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
aptitude install thunderbird

This almost solved the issue: Now my users can get to work, but still too slow; not suitable for a desktop enviroment.

[newreal (eric-mols)]

same here.
10.10 Fresh install,
THunderbird profile restored from a 9.04
and havy load from thunderbird 2 or 3 minutes after strating it
I also notice that Tbird uses a huge amount of memoyr, causing the system to swap

Linux XXXXXXX-Aspire-9300 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@XXXXXXX-Aspire-9300:~# apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
  Installé : 3.1.7+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

is this still an issue with thunderbird 12 installed by default now?
can this be merged with the following bug:

thunderbird uses excessive cpu power
Ubuntu “thunderbird” package Bugs Bug #927515

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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