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 -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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