1537784 - Thunderbird extremely slow, if profile is located on network drive

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

Click on an arbitrary mail in the overview pane.

Actual results:

Often Thunderbird takes about 10 seconds to display the mail contents (not always). Running strace on the the thunderbird process reveals thousands of the following messages:

tat(".thunderbird/zwr4ux9u.default/cert9.db-journal", 0x7ffe345bdc80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat(".thunderbird/zwr4ux9u.default/cert9.db-wal", 0x7ffe345bdc80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

The profile is located in my home directory, which is on a network drive mounted via NFS. This happens on a machine running Debian stretch.

Expected results:

Mail should be immediately displayed.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Sounds like Bug 1478148 - maybe softoken can stop accessing cert9.db-journal and cert9.db-wal all the time for read-only operations (affects reading Thunderbird mail)

Comment 2

[Martin]

Are these two files supposed to always exist? If yes, maybe it would help to somehow force Thunderbird to create them, so it does not repeatedly try to read them again and again. Unfortunately this bug makes Thunderbird rather unusable, if you have to wait for 10 seconds every time, you click on a mail.