Closed Bug 2915 Opened 26 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Big memory leak in "Search Messages"

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P1)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Backend
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: nelson, Assigned: mscott)

Details

(This bug imported from BugSplat, Netscape's internal bugsystem.  It
was known there as bug #331914
http://scopus.netscape.com/bugsplat/show_bug.cgi?id=331914
Imported into Bugzilla on 02/04/99 16:36)

When I search through "local mail" for a message, the VM space in my
application grows by many megabytes.  When close the search window
and the related folder windows, the VM size does not decrease.
After several searches, Communicator was using over 100 Megabytes of VM
and was misbehaving (probably out of memory).

I downloaded the US version of 4.5 off of the external web site today,
and reproduced the problem with that version.

I searched for messages with date after 9/26/98, sender contains
netscape.com and body contains dejanews.  My folders total 87 megabytes
(including txt and .snm files).
Ouch.  Asigning to Phil.
adding myself to cc: list.
I've been playing with this a little, and I do see VM growing a couple
megs sometimes when searching, but not always. Purify doesn't report substantial
leaks or memory in use, so I'm not sure what this memory is being allocated for.
Will keep looking into it.
Doesn't meet marek's 4.51 criteria. TFV 5.0
QA Contact: 4112
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Don't know who's doing Search for 5.0 yet. Accepting bug to myself to shut up
terry's bugzilla notification bot.
Target Milestone: M8
Target Milestone: M8 → M11
won't be fixed for a while, since search is not implemented yet.
OS: Windows NT → All
QA Contact: laurel → suresh
Hardware: PC → All
changing platform from PC to All since this bug, if still exists, would need to
be checked on all platforms.

Change QA contact to Suresh since he can verify the bug, once fixed.
Search won't be implemented in Beta 1, so this bug does not need to be fixed
until after Beta 1
Search won't be implemented in Beta 1, so this bug does not need to be fixed
until after Beta 1
Assignee: phil → mscott
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Target Milestone: M11 → M14
mscott owns the search backend for 5.0, so reassigning to him for M14
Target Milestone: M14 → M17
this bug is on the "Most Frequent Bugs" page on
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/most-frequent-bu
gs/
which makes no sense because we don't even have a search front end.

Send mail to leger to get it off
It'll be off in the next update ;-)

Gerv
Killing off this bug as invalid for seamonkey. We are re-writing our search
backend in 6.0. We may introduce a new big memory leak but we probably won't
have the same big memory leak this bug would be pointing at.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Marking verified (invalid)
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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