283280 - thunderbird hangs or freezes on hyperthreading / HT system

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Alfonso]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041210 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041210 Firefox/1.0

ThunderBird hangs when read a email or click over inbox, trash, sent, ...

-Windows XP SP2
-ThunderBird 1.0
-Pentium IV with Hyper Threading Thecnology.

TB hangs randomly. The cause is the new technology "HyperThreading". 

Disabled in BIOS solved it.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. HyperThreading Enabled in BIOS
2. View a email with images or click any times over carpets "sent", "inbox",
"trash", ...

Actual Results:  
ThunderBird hungs a few minutes

Expected Results:  
no hung

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Not a TB bug. E.g.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

this could still be a thunderbird bug - hyperthreading could expose a race
condition in our threading code, for example. Are you using imap or pop3?

Comment 3

[Alfonso]

(In reply to comment #2)
> this could still be a thunderbird bug - hyperthreading could expose a race
> condition in our threading code, for example. Are you using imap or pop3?

I'm using pop3.
All the programs works fine except Thunderbird.
I don't know if it's a Thunderbird bug. I only have detected a problem and I
explain it.

Thanks

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Firefox also suffers from this (bug 282392).

Adding hang keyword and raising severity.

Comment 5

[Ryo-Ohki]

As discussed in the Firefox topic...

Experiencing the bug running TB 1.0.2 on XP SP2 / P4 Prescott 3GHz.
NOT experiencing the bug running TB 1.0 on XP SP2 / P4 Northwood 3.06GHz (FSB533).

BTW, the two systems are using the same type of motherboard with the same BIOS
revision.

No other issue on these two systems so far.

Comment 6

[Caio Tiago Oliveira (asrail)]

Quoting a comment from the firefox bug:
http://www.robpol86.com/misc_pgs/imagecfg.php
Download imagecfg.exe and then execute "imagecfg.exe -u thunderbird.exe" (according
to your paths).
It will always start in a single cpu mode, you won't have to bother about it
until the version upgrade.

Comment 7

[Tim Clutton]

Try upgrading to the latest BIOS release for your motherboard.  This resolved a
similar issue with FireFox (1.0.4) for me on an Asus P4P800SE.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

FIX is update bios - see Bug 282392.
Changing resolution to INVALID