Jun
29
2007
Google Desktop Makes Thunderbird go Crazy?
Posted by: Gustavo Felisberto in Ciência/Tecnologia, GentooDue to the need of re-installing my system in a pinch I decided to try Kubuntu. So in the last weeks I’ve been running feisty and the gutsy on my laptop.
Today I decided to give the new Google Desktop Search for Linux a try. It was running happy until I started thunderbird. I noticed that thunderbird had some momentary freezes. I opened a terminal and run top. And there was thunderbird eating 89% CPU!! I stoped it and restarted it and the problem did not go away. After some tought I exited Google Desktop and thunderbird got back to normal values!!! Restarted Google Desktop and there was Thunderbird eating all my CPU.
I did some searches and came up empty handed…. Maybe it is just me, but I cant have both running 
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It is probably because of the Thunderbird extension that comes with Google Desktop to allow GD to index emails from Thunderbird. It is probably indexing your emails which is why the CPU-usage goes crazy. You could either try waiting it out (check the index status) or disable/delete the Thunderbird extension if you don’t want GD to index your emails.
Even once the indexing finished, thunderbird still freezes. I disabled the thunderbird extension and the problem went away. I’m sure my mail isn’t getting indexed now, but that’s better than it hanging up every couple of minutes. It was really unusable.
Glad to know at least someone else besides me is having this problem. I need to find out where to file bugs.
I’m having a problem with my thunderbird shutting down sometimes (whether I’m using it or not). It has only started doing it since I installed Google Desktop, although I can’t guarantee they are related. Have you heard of anything like this? I’m on Kubuntu Feisty (7.04).