184434 - moving mail between local folders in POP account seems slow

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Thomas Winzig]

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

I have several mail accounts. One of them is a POP account. When I move mail
from one folder to another within this POP account, it seems pretty slow. I have
an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ with half a gig of RAM, and it is taking about 5 seconds
to move only 60 messages. And this is right after I compacted the folders.
Before that it was taking even longer. It seems like on a machine this fast,
that few number of messages should be moved instantly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Move mail from one POP (local) folder to another and time it.
2. Compact folders.
3. Repeat step 1.
4. Notice how slow it is, compared to other mail programs like Outlook.

Comment 1

[Jeff Morriss]

You may want to check out the 1.3 builds.  It looks like bug 182263 fixed some
disk I/O problems (see also bug 183991).

Comment 2

[Jeff Morriss]

Or, probably more accurately, bug 180516 may have fixed this.

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

I'm confirming this; nearly all actions on POP folders have gotten way slower
than the 1.0 branch. Moving, deleting, marking as read or unread, setting a flag
or label...   Select a large number of messges and do an action, you can time
the difference with an hourglass.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

taking, I have a fix for this coming up.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

move the flush (which does a sync) to where we close the file, so we only do it
once.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

whoops, missed a flush().

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

checked in , r/sr=sspitzer over aim