285684 - Thunderbird Using over a Gig of memory when deleting many small messages - caused by Google desktop search

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Sander]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

I tried deleting about 1000 small email messages, each of size 14kb off of my
IMAP server using thunderbird. When I did this Thunderbird starting going nuts
and began to eat up memory very quickly.

I eventually had to force quit thunderbird to prevent it from eating up more
memory and I don't know how far it would have gone.

I have several screen shots of the process.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get many small email messages (they were automatically sent to me by a router)
2. Try deleting them from IMAP server
3. Watch thunderbird freak out

Comment 1

[Michael Sander]

Attachment: Screen Shot before I deleted the emails

Comment 2

[Michael Sander]

Attachment: Thunderbird eating up a lot of memory

Comment 3

[Michael Sander]

Attachment: Thunderbird Really Freaking Out (More than a Gig of Mem)

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

What version of GoogleDesktop are you using? It's possible that the e-mail
indexing is what's consuming memory, and since the e-mail indexing calls into
thunderbird, it might get counted against Thunderbird's memory useage. Not that
the e-mail indexing should consume thunderbird memory like that, but I don't
think deleting a bunch of e-mails from the trash should really consume much
memory at all.

Is this reproducible?

Comment 5

[Michael Sander]

(In reply to comment #4)
> What version of GoogleDesktop are you using? 
I'm not in front of my computer right now so I can't give you the exact version.
However its the newest one, I just downloaded it a few days ago. (March 9 2005)

> It's possible that the e-mail indexing is what's consuming memory
Yes that's possible. I'll turn googledesktop off try deleting them again.

> Is this reproducible?
On my machine it is... I let the machine run for about ten minutes and then
windows starts freaking out after about 2 gigabytes of memory are being used. At
that point thunderbird crashes. However none of the emails are deleted. When I
go back and try deleting them again, the same thing will happen. 

I don't know if it reproducible on another thunderbird account. Someone should
try sending themselves about 1000 emails and then deleting them. 

Comment 6

[Steve]

FYI, I was having this same problem.  Once I read this bug, I realized that the
excessive memory usage did start happening about the time I installed Google
Desktop.

Since removing it, Thunderbird is now at the previous memory usage level of ~30 meg.

Comment 7

[Michael Sander]

I can confirm that it is also Google desktop search which is causing the
problem. I turned it off and was able to delete the emails with no problem.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

correcting resolution