797791 - At startup Thunderbird hang for minutes with lots of I/O on disk

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Rémy Hubscher [:natim]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/20.0.1132.47 Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11

Steps to reproduce:

I stopped to use my thunderbird for somes days and when I opened it agains it loads my IMAP accounts.


Actual results:

Now each time I launch Thunderbird it takes minutes with lots of I/O on disk.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/195618/how-can-i-make-thunderbird-faster


Expected results:

Even after the first run if I close Thunderbird and restart it it restart making lots of disk I/O.

What can I do to give you useful information so we can make this never happens again?

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

can you disbale global indexing and see if that fixes the issue ?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

If global indexing is impacting your startup then I would expect that is more symptom than cause - and that you also have lots messages redownloading - is that what you are saying in comment 0 "it agains it loads my IMAP accounts"? Is it redownloading entire folders - see the activity manager?  And, is this only your gmail account?

please also comment on whether you see high memory usage, eg >400MB?

Lastly, what version of thunderbird last worked properly for you?

Comment 3

[Rémy Hubscher [:natim]]

Thank you for your fast review. How can I disable global indexing ?
How can I launch the activity manager to see message redownloading ?

For the last version that worked I have no idea really.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Tools | activity manager - and you will see this download activity even if you disable global index at tools | options | advanced | general | uncheck enable global search

Comment 5

[Rémy Hubscher [:natim]]

Ok so, Activity Manager : Indexing 1600 messages, Download 1300 messages in Inbox

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Remy, soundsl like your folder is reloading. Did this stop in version 16?
And if not, then perhaps you are seeing bug 806760

Comment 7

[Rémy Hubscher [:natim]]

I don't have this problem anymore.