Closed Bug 703946 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Make nsCertVerificationThread start up lazily and shut down after a period of being idle

Categories

(Core :: Security: PSM, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Security: PSM
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: briansmith, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: perf, Whiteboard: [Memshrink:P3]) 

nsCertVerificationThread is used very rarely by most users since it is only used in the cert management UI and for S/MIME validation. Since it is used so rarely in Firefox and Thunderbird, we should not start the thread at startup but instead do so only when it is accessed. And, we should shut down the thread when the certificate validation is complete (perhaps, waiting a bit in case there are multiple validations that happen one-after-another, as might be common with Thunderbird S/MIME validation).

I do not know the memory overhead of a single stack or how much time this adds to startup, so I cannot estimate the impact.
MemShrink:P3 for now, if we get measurements showing the effect we can reprioritize.  (Also, would measuring this in about:memory be worthwhile?)
Whiteboard: [Memshrink?] → [Memshrink:P3]
Probably WONTFIX. See bug 669050 comment 16.
Depends on: 669050
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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