309888 - Ten-second pauses (freezes) every few minutes while reading mail or news

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[walter sheets]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050924 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: thunderbird/1.6a1(trunk)

Seems like this problem started a few weeks ago and is still around.

While reading mail or news or RSS articles I notice a very annoying freeze which
lasts for up to ten second.  The entire program becomes totally unresponsive and
comsumes 100% of the CPU during this period.

I'm usually not doing anything but reading when this happens, and I notice it
when trying to scroll down the page and nothing happens.  I'm sure it's not
trying to fetch mail because I have all accounts set to manual fetch.

My impression is that there is a garbage collector at work which runs in the
foreground instead of in the background.  Is this possible?  Maybe 'compacting'
directories without actually asking me first?

Seems to happen about five minutes or so after starting the program, and then
seemingly at random after that.  Not every five minutes, but often enough to be
very annoying.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Doesn't seem to require anything I can identify.  Just read mail or news, and
keep an eye on CPU usage for sudden bursts of activity lasting several seconds.
2.
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Comment 1

[walter sheets]

Haven't noticed this for some time.  Someone must have
fixed it.