Closed Bug 245490 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Thunderbird aviary branch hammers IMAP server with repeated SELECT on every subscribed folder

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
Other
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mozbugs, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040601 Firefox/0.8.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040601 Firefox/0.8.0+ Aviary branch thunderbird builds on Linux are hammering my IMAP server with repeated "SELECT" operations on what appears to be every folder to which I am subscribed (not just those that I have configured to check for new messages). It doesn't do it all the time, and I haven't been able to figure out what triggers it, but once it starts, it can blast the server with several rounds of select requests per minute. A couple of snippets from my server's log: root[sh]@bvms3-1# grep '03/Jun/2004:12:.*user/im50766/root/cron' imap [03/Jun/2004:12:07:44 -0600] bvms3-1 imapd[2706]: Account Information: select [192.18.104.13:54086] im50766 user/im50766/root/cron [03/Jun/2004:12:14:46 -0600] bvms3-1 imapd[2706]: Account Information: select [192.18.104.13:54086] im50766 user/im50766/root/cron [03/Jun/2004:12:15:03 -0600] bvms3-1 imapd[2706]: Account Information: select [192.18.104.13:54086] im50766 user/im50766/root/cron [03/Jun/2004:12:15:19 -0600] bvms3-1 imapd[2706]: Account Information: select [192.18.104.13:54086] im50766 user/im50766/root/cron [03/Jun/2004:12:15:47 -0600] bvms3-1 imapd[2706]: Account Information: select [192.18.104.13:54086] im50766 user/im50766/root/cron [03/Jun/2004:12:15:54 -0600] bvms3-1 imapd[2706]: Account Information: select [192.18.104.13:54127] im50766 user/im50766/root/cron [03/Jun/2004:12:15:59 -0600] bvms3-1 imapd[2706]: Account Information: select [192.18.104.13:54127] im50766 user/im50766/root/cron [03/Jun/2004:12:16:07 -0600] bvms3-1 imapd[2706]: Account Information: select [192.18.104.13:54127] im50766 user/im50766/root/cron root[sh]@bvms3-1# grep -c '03/Jun/2004:12:.*select' imap 582 root[sh]@bvms3-1# grep -c '03/Jun/2004:12:.*select.*im50766' imap 571 root[sh]@bvms3-1# date Thu Jun 3 12:23:35 MDT 2004 root[sh]@bvms3-1# So I've done 571 select operations in the last 23 minutes. The other 20 active users on my server have done 10 combined. Note that my "root/cron" folder is NOT one that I have told thunderbird to check for new messages. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I haven't noticed anyone else complaining about this. Maybe I sucked in a bad trunk patch.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Ever confirmed: true
can you attach or e-mail me an imap protocol log showing the problem? http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap What other builds have you run that *didn't* have this problem, so I can maybe figure out when it got introduced...
It wasn't immediately obvious to me as a user - the sysadmin of our mail server brought it to my attention. The only oddness I've been seeing as a user recently is what I reported in bug 245044 - may or may not be related. I'll get cracking on the protocol log, and maybe try looking back through the server logs to see if I can figure out when this started happening. It was only brough to my attention this morning.
OK, I'm (still) an idiot :( Looks like this is being caused by an extension that I have installed to add a "Compact" button to my toolbar. I hadn't paid close enough attention, and assumed that this only compacts the current folder, but it appears that it compacts *all* folders, with 'MsgCompactFolder(true);'. Does the "true" mean "all subscribed folders"? Now, if thunderbird had a standard toolbar button and keyboard shortcut for "Compact this folder", I wouldn't have had to install this bad extension. Can we please, please, please add this? Pretty please? Bug 216732 hints at this, but maybe I need to open a new RFE. Sorry for wasting your time on this one :(
marking invalid.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
yes, that compacts all folders. NP for the false alarm. Is there no keyboard shortcut on linux that will bring up the context menu?
(In reply to comment #6) > yes, that compacts all folders. NP for the false alarm. Is there no keyboard > shortcut on linux that will bring up the context menu? Not sure, but even if there is, it'd be a pain. I handle deletion with "Mark as deleted", picking off messages to delete in batches, then hit "Compact" when I'm done with that folder. The compact also catches deletions as a result of moving messages to other folders. With several noisy mailing list folders in multiple IMAP accounts, this means I compact quite often (hence the flood of IMAP traffic that started this report). To have to go to the context menu for this is a pain. I think a toolbar button and a keyboard shortcut are both appropriate...
(In reply to comment #7) > To have to go to the context menu for this is a pain. PS. I actually have to *change* context anyway - my context when deleting messages is the message list pane - I have to go to the folder list to get the "Compact this folder" option.
Spun off bug 245607 as an RFE for this.
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