293289 - Grab feeds serially

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Behnam Esfahbod [:zwnj]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3

Thunderbird should grab rss/atom feeds as serial http connections to servers. 
Making connections in paralled, thunderbird uses all of cpu for seconds couses
desktop going to die.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make an RSS News and Blogs account and add a lot of feeds to the account.
2. In Account Settings, mark "Check for new articles at startup".
3. Close Thunderbird and open it again.

Actual Results:  
CPU usage as 100 for seconds.

Expected Results:  
Checking for new articles with a little delay, but don't use all of cpu.

It's not necessary to mark checking at startup, then you should wait until TB
goes to check for new articles in XX minutes.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Perhaps the number of parallel feeds could be specified in a pref.

I would also like to see the feed-opening process (and, for that matter, polling 
of newsgroups) deferred until after all the initial mail stuff (entering 
passwords, fetching new, sending unsent) is completed.

Comment 2

[alta88]

fixed by bug 711173.