168750 - hard drive churns constantly after loading mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Otto Hansen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

when I boot the computer, everything seems normal until I load mozilla.  When I
load mozilla the hard drive starts makeing the normal sounds it makes when
loading a program (churning read/write sounds) but they do not stop when it is
done loading.  Sometimes this will stop several hours after Mozilla is closed

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot computer
2.Connect to Internet
3.Load Mozilla

Actual Results:  
hard drive churns and churns.  happens in all combonations of startup programs

Expected Results:  
it should load the browser and then the harddrive should stop reading/writeing

system goes low on resources sometimes when this is happening and I get a white
box asking to close various programs to free system resources

Comment 1

[Skewer]

Reporter: Can you give us more info on your hardware? I'd specifically like to
know the following things:

- Type of hard drive hardware in use and whether or not DMA is enabled for this
hard drive
- Whether the results can be duplicated with *no* startup programs running (i.e.
checkbox cleared in msconfig)
- Amount of RAM used and available, and amount of pagefile used and available
(dxdiag.exe)
- Amount of free hard disk space

I think your hardware may be the limiting factor. Otherwise, can you download
the latest Talkback-enabled nightly build of Mozilla and see if the problem
still occurs?

Comment 2

[Skewer]

Oh, and also, run the System Resource Meter and tell me what your system
resource is at before and after Mozilla loads.

Comment 3

[Otto Hansen]

I have found this to be a problem with WinGate and mozilla, I fully uninstalled
wingate and removed all referances to it and the problem stopped

-27GB drive on a seperate UDMA controller card
-Problem still occurs with startup items turned off
-384MB or ram, amount available varied but gradually went down towards 0 (made
it to 0 once or twice) 400MB page file and again, varied usage but I never
looked at it when teh normal ram made it to 0
-free HDD space is ~10gb

oh, and CPU is always at 100%usage because of distributed.net but while this bug
was going on, the distributed client didnt submit any keys so im asuming the
100% came from the bug between wingate and mozilla

Comment 4

[Skewer]

INVALID per comments that this is an isolated issue with WinGate.

If you find any more widespread compatibility problems that are reproducible on
any configuration file a new bug on WinGate compatibility.