Just browsing, I noticed that my ventilator was heavily working. "top" revealed that it was Thunderbird that was spiking the cpu, even though it had just been open in the background for a long time. My computer was up for 3 hours 15 minutes at that time. Indeed, the output of top below, sorted by TIME+, indeed demonstrates that thunderbird needed s=tremendous more processor time than other applications
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7206 vanad 20 0 1402m 282m 41m S 0.0 3.6 57:24.71 thunderbird 1179 root 20 0 137m 25m 5700 S 6.7 0.3 7:06.94 Xorg 3008 vanad 20 0 1471m 148m 34m S 1.7 1.9 2:04.82 compiz 30869 vanad 20 0 1158m 293m 40m S 7.3 3.7 1:22.67 firefox 2881 vanad 20 0 485m 27m 19m S 10.3 0.4 1:07.88 gnome-system-mo 1348 root 35 15 24132 8420 1008 S 0.0 0.1 0:52.04 preload 3024 vanad 20 0 923m 49m 19m S 0.0 0.6 0:27.90 nautilus 8687 vanad 20 0 1456m 165m 82m S 0.0 2.1 0:19.61 soffice.bin 7621 vanad 20 0 744m 24m 12m S 0.0 0.3 0:09.45 gnome-search-to 5977 vanad 20 0 1321m 124m 15m S 0.0 1.6 0:07.44 evince 4466 vanad 20 0 420m 19m 4440 S 0.0 0.3 0:07.23 zeitgeist-datah 17066 vanad 20 0 726m 71m 15m S 0.0 0.9 0:07.01 evince -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/927515 Title: Thunderbird stuck at 100% CPU Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project: New Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Just received the automatic update last night. Ever since, thunderbird is using 20-50% CPU constantly, according to top. Turned off global search and indexing to no avail. This is really bad for me as it's driving up the temperature of my laptop, runs up the fan noise and reduces battery time. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: thunderbird 10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 BuildID: 20120129183038 Date: Mon Feb 6 10:44:55 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=nl_NL:nl:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Profile0Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing Profile0Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing Profile0Plugins: pluginreg.dat isn't available Profile0Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing Profiles: Profile0 - LastVersion=3.0.6/20100713193322 (Out of date) Profile1 (Default) - LastVersion=10.0/20120129183038 (Running) SourcePackage: thunderbird UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-02-02 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-consumption/+bug/927515/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
