why is proton email so slow on my computer

Hopefully this can be improved sooner rather than later, this is really making the bridge untenable, especially on laptops. (maybe every 2-3 minutes instead of every minute). Updated to 1.8.9, and now it is consistently at ~100-120% all of the time, and still rises up to 2000% sometimes, but this is maybe slightly less frequent than before.

With 1.6.9 previously, it consistently spooled up to 2000% CPU as reported by 'top', every minute or so. Once we fix what we know is wrong, we will definitely reach out to gather what we've missed - but we hope it won't be much.

We managed to narrow down the problems though and a lot of fixes will be coming through in upcoming releases - some are already included in the recent 1.5.6, but a wider range will be coming in 1.6.x. We initially struggled to replicate some of them, just like with related #29. Most of those problems are not clearly visible to the user and often just work when Bridge retries. We identified a range of scenarios in which this happening - some are panic, some are related to fetch errors or, quite often, to expunge during not-uid fetch. This is obviously not desired and frustrating to all of us. The problems starts when Bridge is not doing it as a one-off but when this becomes frequent behaviour. I'm sure you all appreciate that the issue of high CPU usage is not straightforward to fix.įirst of all, Bridge is expected to consume a lot of resources during the initial sync - we want to have it done quickly and allow the users to use their email client without much delay, hence this part should be treated as expected behaviour.

Why is proton email so slow on my computer