Closed
Bug 346361
Opened 18 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
Huge Memory hole
Categories
(Thunderbird :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: Nuckerl.Stefan, Assigned: Bienvenu)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Thunderbird allocates about 500MB RAM in 30min.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Thunderbird
2.Wait some time
3.Check Taskmanager, Thunderbird allocates 500MB and more. From time to time it gets swapped out.
The only extension I have installed is enigmail and talkback. I'm using winmail theme. I haven't noticed this problem prior to Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, but I could be wrong.
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Comment 1•18 years ago
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I see this too - a couple minutes after startup, TB opens all the .msf files (and local mailboxes) and leaves them open. I have not seen this with my debug builds - only release builds.
Assignee: mscott → bienvenu
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
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Comment 2•18 years ago
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this could be specific to the 2.0 branch (or we could be seeing a different problem). Do you have Google Desktop Search installed?
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Comment 3•18 years ago
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turning off GDS fixed this for me...
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Comment 4•18 years ago
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No I don't have google Desktop Search installed or any other Search Engine. I also excluded the thunderbird directory in my virus scanner. I just had tb open for about 2 1/2 h and then suddenly Windows told me my virtual memory is low. tb sucked up about 1,8GB of memory. I'm sure I would have noticed this earlier, so I'm pretty sure this bug has been introduced in 1.5.0.4.
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Comment 5•18 years ago
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Not sure if this is related, but in one of my inboxes thunderbird tells me I have 1 654 353 Mails, which I don't think is correct:-)
Then after some minutes suddenly it says I got five thousand more mails which of course is nonsense.
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Comment 6•18 years ago
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SCreenshot shows incorrect number of mails, that increases within minutes.
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Comment 7•18 years ago
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Stefan, you need to shutdown TB, delete your Inbox.msf file and restart TB in order to get the count problem to stop...or run TB 2.0 Alpha 1...
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Comment 8•18 years ago
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Yeah you are right, that fixed the count problem and obviously also the memory problem, thunderbird now consumes only about 38MB of RAM.
Comment 9•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #3)
> turning off GDS fixed this for me...
GDS is Google ?
where to dupe this to?
Version: unspecified → 1.5
Comment 10•18 years ago
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GDS is Google Desktop Search
Will try disabling it and testing again in TB 1.5.0.9
I have a video showing TB eating up memory here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7967226264260436754&hl=en
The post is here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2630215#2630215
Comment 12•18 years ago
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Vitaliy, did you determine the cause to be Norton AV?
Oliversl, did you get good result disabling Google Desktop Search ?
Comment 13•18 years ago
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I disabled Norton AV completely, but TB eating memory anyway.
After start - 43Mb.
After 3 hours of use - 362 Mb.
Comment 14•18 years ago
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One more note:
in the top right corner I see that dots in the circle are always running.
Comment 15•18 years ago
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Finally I found and removed the reason of memory leaks.
I had several RSS channels. Each channel - 50-100 messages every day.
I removed RSS channels and removed RSS account at all.
Now my TB stay in range 25-30 Mb all the time.
Hope, my experience will be useful ;-)
Comment 16•18 years ago
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I concur with comment #15 above. I whacked all of my RSS channels. Since then, TB memory usage hasn't gone above 36MB. The memory leak appears to be related to RSS handling.
Comment 17•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #8)
> Yeah you are right, that fixed the count problem and obviously also the memory
> problem, thunderbird now consumes only about 38MB of RAM.
Nuckerl seems to be gone, so closing this WFM based on comment 7 and comment 8. Issues related to RSS might better be directed to an RSS bug.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Comment 18•18 years ago
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Patrick if you don't find a better bug, suggest you reopen your original Bug 364939, is it apparently wasn't a duplicate after all.
Comment 19•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #16)
> I concur with comment #15 above. I whacked all of my RSS channels. Since
> then, TB memory usage hasn't gone above 36MB. The memory leak appears to be
> related to RSS handling.
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I don't think is RSS related but instead is "folder with thousand emails" related.
I start TB and configured to do not check any account. It stays 20/25 (20MB ram/25MB swap).
I have 3 IMAP account, and 4 RSS account.
I do a check email only in the first IMAP account where I have folders with 70000+ emails. Checking only that account makes TB rocket from 20/25 to 50/107. And in the process of checking mail, TB reach 120/170. I have to minimize and later restore the window in order to free some memory.
It would be nice if anyone can run a memory usage tool on TB, maybe with a TB build with debug enabled.
All my tests are in WinXP SP2
HTH
Oliver
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