Irving - I tried the "try" build. After thunderbird started it began indexing 11000+ emails and started downloading from different folders. I had to exit it before it stabilized because it consumed an extremely large amount of memory and my system became extremely unresponsive.
IO wait was around 50% and load average was over 7 by the time I exited thunderbird. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 26208 pcullum 20 0 12.4g 6.0g 18m D 2.7 75.1 7:04.68 ./thunderbird Activity manager showed that it had indexed 19% of messages but it wasn't progressing anymore. I don't know what this means but the last lines logged on the console were: nsStringStats => mAllocCount: 1232321 => mReallocCount: 139139 => mFreeCount: 1192060 -- LEAKED 40261 !!! => mShareCount: 2426787 => mAdoptCount: 298338 => mAdoptFreeCount: 298332 -- LEAKED 6 !!! -- 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/1074260 Title: Thunderbird heavy IMAP traffic downloading messages Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: In Progress Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Thunderbird (as of version 16?) generates a lot of IMAP traffic, continually redownloading messages. One issue has been resolved (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803843 and https://launchpad.net/bugs/1068921 ) but this issue remains. It is open in bugzilla as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806760 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/1074260/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
