Shoulda taken "Wayne's" advice in the rainbow chard thread posted above, being that he's a T-bird dev. He's right, that setting doesn't really solve the problem. I've had to just click the online/offline toggle at the bottom left of T-bird so it does...
Wellsir, it doth appear that this issue has been "out there" for 10 years or more, and the solution was posted in this forum: https://rainbow.chard.org/2013/02/19/thunderbird-high-cpu/ . I can't believe that the developers and maintainers have left t...
Here's an example of what top shows: 192429 xxx 37 0 4603428 1.2g 98172 S 53.8 15.1 310:12.82 thunderbird-binThat's 53.8% CPU and 15.1% memory essentially just idling. Not fetching, indexing, or doing much of anything!
Thanks, Ramon. It worked! -- For about one day. Sigh. It's back to its constant minimum of 55% CPU and 16% memory -- both way more than anything else I have and NOTHING seemingly going on in the app. Just sitting there churning. Going back to my less...
