427317 - Mail got slow down after running SeaMonkey for several minutes

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Timothy Huang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9

I'm running the "stable" version of SeaMonkey. However, I encountered this annoying problem since the last and current "stable" version.

The problem is like this:
When I start the SeaMonkey and open the mail. Everything works OK. Clicking to another letter will show up immediately. Nothing wrong here.

However, if I work outside SeaMonkey for say 5 or 10 minutes and back to it, the mail openning will be so slowed down with "loading message...". It may take minutes to load a previously opened letter. This situation gets worser and worser, till I'm forced to quit SeaMoney and restart it. Then, everything works fine.

This is a serious problem. I hope it can be thoroughly investigated and solved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open SeaMonkey, go to Mail
2. Open any mail. Then, go to desktop and do something else for several minutes
3. Back to SeaMonkey Mail. "loading message ..." will show up with spinning ball
Actual Results:  
Mail got slowed down so much to unbearable. Forced to quit and restart SeaMonkey.

Expected Results:  
Not slowed down after opening up SeaMonkey for several minutes. Please fix the problem.

Comment 1

[Timothy Huang]

Please, please, fix this problem as soon as possible.

The slowing down problem is getting worse, and getting my limit. 

I'm using a stable version. It should NOT have this kind of problem.

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I'm running the "stable" version of SeaMonkey. However, I encountered this
> annoying problem since the last and current "stable" version.

Was is working fine with a previous release ?
What regression timeframe would that be ?

> However, if I work outside SeaMonkey for say 5 or 10 minutes and back to it,

Does it happen too if you work _inside_ SeaMonkey for that long ?

> minutes to load a previously opened letter. This situation gets worser and
> worser, till I'm forced to quit SeaMoney and restart it. Then, everything 

Are you noticing any abnormal CPU/memory usage ?

Comment 3

[Timothy Huang]

I'm using 1.1.9 now. Similar situation since 1.1.8.

As long as "inside" SeaMonkey, it seems OK.

I'm using G5 iMac mainly.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

sounds network related.  Are you wireless, broadband or dialup?
*from comment 2) Is CPU or memory usage high or low?

please retest the release prior to 1.1.8 and confirm the problem does not happen there.

Comment 5

[Timothy Huang]

I'm using 1.1.9 and did not keep older version. Sorry.

Comment 6

[Timothy Huang]

By the way, CPU and memory were not the cause of the problem.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> By the way, CPU and memory were not the cause of the problem.

The question about CPU... is relevant please - symptoms can be helpful clues to determining what IS the problem.


(In reply to comment #5)
> I'm using 1.1.9 and did not keep older version. Sorry.

you can get an older release from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

alpha 2 is available at http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.0a2

do you see this problem with alpha 2?

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no response :(
=> incomplete