208576 - download saving of images hangs because of large logfiles.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 159107

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[R J Gray]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

when download logfile downloads.rdf is > 400K browser freezes while saving image.

When logfile reaches 3Mb this freeze will last 30seconds and consume 100% of the
available CPU

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download enough files to grow logfile beyond about 400K, the largewr the file
the more obvious the symptoms.
2.save image. browser freezes. CPU use = 100%
3

Actual Results:  
browser eventually wakes up and continues as expected.

Expected Results:  
shouldn't freeze.

Problem is in handling large log files.

Either delete old log files at startup or find better logfile parser and a max
logfile size.

Comment 1

[Michael Gabriel]

confirming on win32, couldnt find a dupe, but i hope there is one out there...
my log has reached 5 megs, saving froze mozilla for like 10secs

i tried deleting them via download manager, but that froze mozilla for 10 mins
till i killed it...

i think bug 132013 is still valid 
and bug 160624 might be the same problem

Comment 2

[R J Gray]

You must exit mozilla, then remove logfile with file manager, then restart
mozilla otherwise mozilla hangs onto deleted file on unix type system and it
will re-appear with same file size as before removal.

Comment 3

[Marcelo Bastos]

I have been bothered by this slowness problem for a long time and this is right
on the money: deleting downloads.rdf solved it.
I concur with rjgray: an automatic solution should be implemented. In the
meantime, at the very least it would be nice if this workaround got a mention in
the Release Notes.

Comment 4

[Michael Gabriel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159107 ***