After my recent OS upgrade I found that Thunderbird would pop up a dialog box every now and then saying that a script had stopped responding. A top command showed Thunderbird was consuming all of one CPU. I have multiple cores but this would be a problem for people with a single core, and in addition isn't good for power consumption. Also the status bar at the bottom showed either thousands of items remaining to be indexed, or Initializing...
A search showed somebody with the same issue. My situation was worse. Even though I disabled Trackerbird from the Addons Manager, I could not shut Thunderbird down properly to run without this addon. Every time I started up Thunderbird, it said I had to restart to disable Trackerbird. In addition, there was no Remove button. A search showed that the addon is a system one, and comes from tracker-miner-thunderbird. Removing the package with zypper fixed the problem once and for all. No more items remaining to index, no more maxing out one CPU. The package may be named different in your distro; mine is openSUSE.
I surmise that some of my mailboxes, being POPS or IMAPS connections that are not always connected, caused Trackerbird to spin its wheels trying to index the mailboxes.
As a personal gripe, why do Linux desktops foist indexing tools upon me without asking me if I want my data indexed or not? I have no use for indexing since I know where my documents are. I've also disabled akonadi, nepomuk and strigi because they were eating up CPU for no benefit to me. Answers to me on the back of a postage stamp.
A search showed somebody with the same issue. My situation was worse. Even though I disabled Trackerbird from the Addons Manager, I could not shut Thunderbird down properly to run without this addon. Every time I started up Thunderbird, it said I had to restart to disable Trackerbird. In addition, there was no Remove button. A search showed that the addon is a system one, and comes from tracker-miner-thunderbird. Removing the package with zypper fixed the problem once and for all. No more items remaining to index, no more maxing out one CPU. The package may be named different in your distro; mine is openSUSE.
I surmise that some of my mailboxes, being POPS or IMAPS connections that are not always connected, caused Trackerbird to spin its wheels trying to index the mailboxes.
As a personal gripe, why do Linux desktops foist indexing tools upon me without asking me if I want my data indexed or not? I have no use for indexing since I know where my documents are. I've also disabled akonadi, nepomuk and strigi because they were eating up CPU for no benefit to me. Answers to me on the back of a postage stamp.
