Slow Typing In Mail: A Permanent Fix???

Sampler stopped working but I got one trace from Shark in its rare moments of not crashing. This is where all the CPU time goes while typing in Mail.app. It looks a bit like a memory leak slowing down a linear search. There's no hint of a workaround except quitting and relaunching.


88.1% 88.1% libobjc.A.dylib objc_msgSend
0.0% 79.0% CoreFoundation -[NSArray containsObject:]
0.0% 79.0% AppKit -[NSView addTrackingArea:]
0.0% 79.0% AppKit -[NSView(NSInternal) _addTrackingRect:owner:userData:assumeInside:useTrackingNum:]
0.0% 79.0% AppKit -[NSView addTrackingRect:owner:userData:assumeInside:]
0.0% 79.0% AppKit -[NSViewDynamicToolTipManager _disabledTrackingInNeighborhoodOfMouse]
0.0% 79.0% CoreFoundation -[NSArray makeObjectsPerformSelector:]
0.0% 79.0% AppKit +[NSViewDynamicToolTipManager abortAllToolTips]
0.0% 79.0% AppKit -[NSApplication sendEvent:]
0.0% 79.0% Mail 0x2e8e8 [291B]
0.0% 79.0% AppKit -[NSApplication run]
0.0% 79.0% AppKit NSApplicationMain
0.0% 79.0% Mail 0xfa0ff [542B]

Typing is VERY slow for me too. VERY SLOW. Restarted fixes it. Vacuum does no different that restarting. Its very annoying.

Check out this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7114123

Has anyone found a fix for this yet? I'm still having Mail slow down horribly when typing emails. Else, it seems to work fine, but on the typing, I can finish typing a sentence, then watch as it slowly, character by character appears. And, I'm using the newest, 10.5.4!

To clarify, it seems to be the same problems everyone else here is having because after restarting, it works better.

I just started experiencing very slow typing also. However, it seems to be happening not only in Mail program, but also on Safari. I have had this MacBook Air since they came out and I can't stand this. It's really aggravating. Has a fix come out yet besides constantly restarting? Even with restart, it becomes slow again. Thanks!

Same issue here, after Mail has been open for a day or two, typing any text in a new message is terribly slow. The CPU usage for Mail goes up to about 80-90% every time a key is pressed. If I quit and reopen, it works fine again. Under normal conditions, typing in Mail only uses up about 10-15% of the CPU as reported by Activity Monitor.

I noticed no difference when replying to an existing message or composing a new one. I suggest everyone who is experiencing this report it, perhaps at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html.

I have the same issue. I noticed it when I switched my mail accounts from POP to IMAP. No funny extensions either. I tried permissions, and even turning off active spelling. It does help for a bit if I quit and restart Mail.

Well this is interesting... I too have IMAP accounts alongside one POP account. What about the others on this thread? Is anyone using ONLY POP accounts and still having this problem?

I too am using IMAP and experience the slow typing problem.

Message was edited by: Lawrence David