197405 - Compacting folders in 1.3 takes longer than with 1.1

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Brad Tarver]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Compacting folders in 1.3 takes 50-75% longer than with 1.1. I use 1.1 b/c
compacting folders in 1.2x seemed to be broken, but that's a separate issue. :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete an email from a folder.
2. Compact folder.

Comment 1

[Karl Palsson]

I can't speak about release specifics, but compacting definitely takes
_substantially_ longer than it used to.  It's now almost possible to read the
subjects as they go pass being compacted, whereas before it was a blur.

I know, that's highly subjective :)  but it's true! honest!

Cheers,
Karl P

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

there's a patch in bug 172786 that should speed up compact folder somewhat.
However, when I compact a folder, the thread pane is blanked out so you don't
see message subjects going by at all. There was a bug that we showed message
headers while regenerating summary files, but that's fixed in 1.4 final builds

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

please try a build from today - this should be fixed.