On 08/08/2012 02:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > I have watched this in top for the past week or so. Thunderbird and > Firefox are causing X cpu usage to shoot upt to between 80-100% on > simple tasks like scrolling a message list in tbird or simply opening > css menus in firefox. All of this used to be instantaneous and never > cause the cpu to bat an eye. But now, it is very pronounced and brings > the desktop to a crawl. This box is not a screamer, but plenty fast, > P4 2800/4G/Nvidia 8600GT. > > How do I determine what is causing this? X? ff/tb? something else? > Any ideas appreciated. Thanks. > Same here on a fairly recent machine with an Intel GPU. I use chromium for web browsing and that is no problem at all there. However, thunderbird really doesn't like my CPU.
