On 6/12/11, David Wilkinson <no-re...@effisols.com> wrote: > David Wilkinson wrote: >> Using SM2 on Windows 7 x64 (and other Windows machines). >> >> I have found many discussions of high CPU usage in FireFox and >> SeaMonkey, but none of the suggestions have ever helped in my situation. >> >> The symptom is that SeaMonkey freezes for a few seconds, most noticeably >> when scrolling a document or clicking a menu (when I expect instant >> response). The problem is less severe on my new quad core machine >> (Windows 7 x64) and worse on an XP virtual machine. >> >> When this happens on my quad-core machine, Task Manager typically shows >> high CPU on several cores (usually three), not just one one core as >> happens when I load a new page. >> >> How can I find out what SeaMonkey is doing when this happens? > > Thanks all for the suggestions, but my attempts to throttle background > activity > in mailnews do not seem to have helped. In fact, the problem always seems to > be > caused by some kind of user interaction with SM, often something quite > innocuous. If I just watch Task Manager without using SM, I do not see these > spikes. > > In the past I have tried starting SM in safe mode and this did not help > either. > > Again, the symptom is a sudden spike in CPU usage on several cores, > sometimes > three, sometimes four. > > Again, is there any way to determine what SM is doing to consume these > cycles?
Kind of a long-shot, but you could try Process Monitor. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx Regards, Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
