Closed Bug 265888 Opened 20 years ago Closed 18 years ago

TB "hangs" when downloading a large number of news headers

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: jhouck, Assigned: mscott)

Details

(Keywords: hang)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 I'm downloading the headers from news.povray.org for a research project. TB becomes "non-responsive" and hangs when I try to get more than 5000+ headers. There seems to be no problem if the number of headers is below 5000. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. setup TB news profile for news.povray.org 2. select a group, say povray.newusers 3. download all headers Actual Results: TB becomes non-responsive and requires closure. The upper righthand corner X box allows TB to be closed with a "this program has become non-responsive" popup box. If I restart TB, select the same newsgroup and "download all headers", the count starts from zero again and sometimes will go slightly past the count where it stopped previously, then goes inop. Repeat as necessary... Example: povray.newusers group has 9740 messages. TB "hung" at 6969 headers and had to be shutdown. I started it again and it reached 7015 then hung. Expected Results: TB should get all the headers from the site. I've used Outlook Express in the past on this same news server and not had any issues. This is a clean install of TB 0.8 under XP SP2.
TB version 1.0.2 (20050317) Mac OS X 10.3.8 Dual G4 1Ghz, 1.5GB SDRAM I'm seeing the same thing on Mac OS X. TB will hang (become unresponsive) indefinitely and will require a force quit. Seems to happen around 15000 messages (group has >60k headers), according to the info bar on the bottom of TB's window. Tried a fresh install, same result. Reproducible: always.
I see the same thing on Windows 2000 with Thunderbird 1.0.2 (20050317). I did not see this on Windows XP over several sessions (same version and in fact the newsrc file on this machine was copied from that one), but on this Windows XP machine it happens every session trying to download headers from alt.callahans ( > 100K headers) -- it stalls around 500-1500 headers downloaded).
Sorry, I meant "but on this Windows 2000 machine".
is problem gone for you? WFM w2k,version 3 alpha 1 (20060911) XP,version 3 alpha 1 (20061115)
Severity: normal → critical
Component: General → Mail Window Front End
Keywords: hang
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Version: unspecified → 1.0
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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