145441 - Mail and News consumes infinite memory on startup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Stewart]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020517
BuildID:    2002051708

When Mail & News is started as normal, memory usage climbs extremely quickly,
eventually swapping out all other loaded applications (including X itself) to
the point where the system is unuseable. Solution is to quickly `killall
mozilla-bin` before the system is overrun.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load web-browser
2. Close web-browser
3. Load Mail & News

Actual Results:  Memory was completely consumed, swap began to rise, system
became sluggish - logins were delayed due to lack of system resources.

Expected Results:  Loaded Mail & News

Comment 1

[Eduardo Serrano]

I also have this problem, but in windows XP
This bug appeared in mozilla 1.1

Comment 2

[Jason Pettiss]

I have Windows XP and have been using Mozilla 1.2.1 for mail without trouble for
awhile now.  I'm connecting to a secure IMAP server.  Yesterday I created a few
IMAP folders on the server.  Today I can open the Mail window ok, but when I
click on any of the server items (Inbox, Sent, Trash, or folders I've created)
it ramps up to infinite memory.

Mozilla 1.2.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Comment 3

[Thomas Weingartner]

I've had the same memory problem under Win2000. Mozilla did not respond to any
user input or clicks.

Mozilla 1.3a
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Comment 4

[Xavi Miró]

I have experienced the same problem with Windows 2000 and Mozilla 1.2.1. I
started Mail & News from the systray menu, and after a strange delay I could see
in the Task Manager that Mozilla was reaching 256 MB. I had to kill it from the
Task Manager. It's been the first time I've seen this problem though I've been
working with Mozilla 1.2.1 since it was available.

Comment 5

[Andrew Hagen]

*** Bug 191491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Andrew Hagen]

PC/All. Confirming on basis of multiple reports. This appears to affect MailNews
on startup. 

Comment 7

[guanxi]

Moz uses plenty of memory, but I haven't seen an infitite increase.

There must be some contributing factors:
 - how big is your mail folder?
 - are you using IMAP?
etc

I'm using POP3, and my mail folder is 310 MB.

Moz 1.5 final on WinXP Pro

Comment 8

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 194835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

has this problem gone away?

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> has this problem gone away?

WFM and apparently for others.
closing WFM.
Please reopen if you encounter the problem in a modern version of moz.


(In reply to comment #8)
> *** Bug 194835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Note, if one gets error message saying "virtual memory low" is not necessarily the fault of mozilla - it could be that memory was already very low before starting moz.