66214 - When expanding FTP trees deep, memory consumption reaches 100% and slows down the Win OS

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 65220

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** Observed with 1/22/2001 Win32 build **

This proble has been going on for some time now.
The above build simply means that the problem
is still reproiducible with the current build.
This problem is so noticeable that I hope someone
is already working on it.

I am not sure if this is a layout a problem but I don't know
exactly where to place this bug. Here's the problem description,
when I try to download Netscape internal build installer and
when Mozilla remembers where I last visited on that FTP server,
it tries to expand the directory tree all the way down to 
something like:

ftp://hostname/directory1/directory2/seamonkey/windows/32bit/x86/

The last directory, 'x86', contains masny builds from the present
and past dates. 

Now as the above build tries to expand all the directory
structures, memory consumption on my Windows NT4 (US & Japanese)
reaches 100% and slows down everything until this process is
terminated. There is no way to do anything else once this state
is reached, and it happens every time the FTP directory structure
is expanded.
I have a 500Mhz processor and 256MG RAM and so this is quite
a consumption.

Comment 1

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Maybe waterson or mscott has heard about this problem.

Comment 2

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Added mcafee to the CC list. This bug needs the right component
to go to.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Doug, I started noticing this problem at the same time that big ftp landing
happened the other week. I suspect you might be the best person to look into this.

re-assigning.

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

yup.  this was caused my me.  I am working of broad changes to necko which will
inturn fix this problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65220 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

VERIFIED: same problem.