11815 - [NEWS] get new articles causes the progress barber pole to spin

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

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steps to reproduce:

./apprunner -mail
double click on a news server
double click on a news group
progress barber pole start spinning
[it will download new articles]
[it will stop downloading]
progress barber pole continues to spin.

cc'ing bienvenu for good measure.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

You're probably not getting an EndDocumentLoad or something like that. Perhaps a
necko bug, though Scott is more up on this than I am.

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

accepting and marking m10.

Comment 3

[leger]

Is this Linux specific? [PP]?  Or all platforms?

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

marking all.  this is not PP.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fixed.

on linux, there is a way to see how many open nntp connections you have.

from the command line, do this:

netstat |& grep -i nntp

you will see something like this, for each nntp connection:

tcp        0      0 sspitzer.mcom.com:2730  secnews1:nntp           ESTABLISHED

with 5.0 before this fix, you would see a new connection for each news
operation!

now, you should at most 1.

Comment 6

[lchiang]

qa contact to Karen.  Karen - you can try to verify this.

Comment 7

[Karen Huang]

Verified on 9/16 build - Passed on Win98 & WinNT.
On Linux, it's working, too.(but the barber pole spin a little bit slow...)

Still need to verify on the Mac later.

Comment 8

[Karen Huang]

Verified on 9/17 build for Mac platform - Passed by retest.