[Users] Claws Mail using 100% CPU

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Tue Jun 2 09:06:48 CEST 2020


On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 08:27:09 +1000, Peter Richards wrote:

> > Go to /Configuration/Preferences/Other/Miscellaneous and set the
> > 'Socket I/O timeout' to something lo, like 5 or 10 seconds. What's
> > your current value?
>
> The current value is 225 for some reason. It seems a generic thing
> though, that setting. If I lower it, other accounts may not retrieve
> emails, it will just timeout all the time.

That is reason to be concerned on your side, since the default is 60 seconds
and should be more than enough for almost all usage scenarios including slowed
down servers with high response times. A timeout of almost 4 minutes is extreme.


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