thunderbird pegs and hogs hard drive disc io

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 3/14/15 4:06 PM, thufir wrote:
> I switched pc's, so Thunderbird has to download n e-mails for imap
> archive, and this both takes time and hogs resources.  Ok, that's fine.
>
> However, it renders this pc unusable to the point where I left it for an
> hour, still the hard drive was pegged to the point where the console
> wouldn't respond, I had to use REISUB.  Also, the disc was under so much
> usage that it was a bit alarming.
>
> I want thunderbird to download archives, I have it set to just archive
> the last few days, but downloads headers.  How can I limit this?
>
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
>
> iotop showed thundebird, and, oddly, firefox -- both at 99% or so of
> resources.  I put it almost entirely down to thunderbird.
>
> I've rebooted, and am going to go through tbird to make sure it's not
> trying to archive everything, but this seems a bit unprecedented.  Any
> pointers/logs to look at/etc?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Thufir
>
>
	I doubt it's Thunderbird. Just did a similar situation, except I didn't 
have Firefox running, and all was fine. What web pages had you opened? 
Maybe a Firefox plugin gone bad?

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