On 2/13/2025 1:49 AM, fedora@eyal.emu.id.au wrote:
It is me, the OP. To simplify the story.
- start TB. OK
- fetch POP3 mail. A few times in a few hours. All OK.
- do a "Compact Folders".
messages say it completed. The blue activity line remains wavy(*). TB is idle yet it shows 60-70% CPU in "top". If I minimize TB then it stops using CPU. If I select a folder (but do nothing) the %CPU goes up to around 120%. Turning off the status bar also stops using CPU!
This last item probably points at the source of the problem!
TIA
(*) the item at the right side of the bottom status line shows a rolling blue/white pattern, as if it is active.
Yeah- similar issues seem to be a persistent theme reported for TBird over several years now. Search the TBird bugzilla and you'll see it popping up again and again. I reported pretty much the same thing 2..3 years back- my guess was a tight display-update loop that continuously called the display-manager (X11 at that time) for an unchanged status.
ron