233563 - Networking component ceases after period of use, requires Moz restart

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240759

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jon Roland]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040208

Although this seems similar to Bug #206107, it does not appear to be related to
IMAP. It can also occur when only the browser is open, although not as often or
as soon, and seems to occur after some other apps are run that are resource
hogs. It also seems to occur sooner and more often when run on a Win 98 host
with 128MB of RAM than on a Win XP host with 512MB of RAM, and when the Inbox
contains more message headers, suggesting it may be related to hitting some
resource limit. It is suggested that Moz check for a connection and refresh if
needed, and perhaps to provide the user with a manual refresh button, rather
than having to close Moz and reopen.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

Confirming. Have seen this many times on 1.6 and 1.7 pre-alpha on Windows 98 on
a machine with 128MB RAM. Then you have to Ctrl-Alt-Del kill the Mozilla process
and restart Mozilla. Then Mozilla seems out-of-whack anyway and you are better
off rebooting the system. Not using Mozilla Mail/News on this machine, though I
do use Thunderbird. Major severity as Mozilla can no longer download web pages,
etc. Changing product/component. If it isn't right, say something or just change
it back.

I agree that Moz seems to hit some kind of resource limit. 

Comment 2

[Andrew Hagen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240759 ***