Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

[Jerry Feldman]

On 06/15/2010 02:35 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
>> ok, take thunderbird out of as much background mode as possible.
>>
>> next time you are going to be composing emails, put thunderbird offline,
>> disable auto save, then start composing.
>>
>> if you still have freezing, take system offline.
>>
>> also, you could run top in a terminal. when you have freezing/loss of
>> keystroke showing, note what you see at top of top display.
>>
>>   
>>     
> This is certainly a good idea. I think that running TOP in a terminal
> and placing that window always on top without making any changes to
> Thunderbird settings is the first thing to do because the freeze could
> be something unrelated to Thunderbird. The second step, would possibly
> to be either disable autosave or set T-bird to offline mode. Another
> possibility is to change the autosave time to determine if it is
> actually the autosave. Currently the interval is 5 minutes. By setting
> it to 1 minute would make it easier to isolate. The reason I seem to
> doubt the autosave is that yesterday morning the message I was composing
> was short and should not have caused an autosave sequence.  Hopefully, I
> should have some more data by next weekend.
>
>   
I always forget how much of a friend Google is :-). Even before I posted
my original email I should have looked at this. While most of the
responses are Windows oriented, they do have some relevance to Linux.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Application_not_responding

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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