351683 - Thunderbird crawls to a halt when loading big mailboxes.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Angelo Dipierro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.5 (20060719)

Running Thunderbird with large mailboxes often causes it to slow to a crawl on startup. 

Running on one of our PCs with an 800 meg "local folders" account and three other POP3 accounts (the biggest one at around 800 megs, too) often results in thunderbird taking forever to show anything in the message list pane. 

Deleting the .msf files to have t-bird recreate them or compacting folders eases the problem for a couple of days, but then everything slows down again. Computer specs are P4@2.8GHz, 80Gig SATA drive, Win-XP on a FAT32 partition. Disk fragmentation could be an issue here, and messages should be purged/sorted in folders (if you can convince a vanilla user to do that, that is...), but I'd hope t-bird could do better ;-)

Maybe related to a post in http://www.antharia.com/blog/index.php?id=197

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does this still occur with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.17)

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.