448360 - SeaMonkey get lazy after a while

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:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080703 SeaMonkey/1.1.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080703 SeaMonkey/1.1.11

This problem started since 1.1.09 (?). After the SeaMonkey started for a while, perhaps, 15 or 30 minutes, opening a mail or visiting a new webpage got slower and slower with the spinning ball turning around and around. The only way I know to cure this is to quit and restart the SeaMonkey.

Somewhere somehow, there must be a bug to cause this performance degradation. Please fix it asap.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the SeaMonkey (everything works fine so far)
2. Do something else for 15 or 30 minutes, and come back to SeaMonkey.
3. Try to surf a webpage or open a mail.
Actual Results:  
SeaMonkey gets lazy after a while.

Expected Results:  
Performance degraded to unbearable.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Just wondering: Can you create a second profile (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#Mac_OS_X) and see if it also gets slower and slower with the new profile?

Comment 2

[Timothy Huang]

I did not try the above with a new profile. It would take up too much of times on moving a few files a time and wait for 30 minutes or so to see if such a file caused the problem.

However, when I checked the Mac System Monitor, I noticed the followings. I don't know if these help to see the cause of the problem.

2008-07-31 08:08:03.812 seamonkey-bin[555] WARNING: _wrapRunLoopWithAutoreleasePoolHandler got kCFRunLoopExit, but there are no autorelease pools in the stack.

2008-07-31 17:48:33.050 seamonkey-bin[983] WARNING: _wrapRunLoopWithAutoreleasePoolHandler got kCFRunLoopExit, but there are no autorelease pools in the stack.

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I do not want you to move all files, I just want you to test with a plain new profile to see if it's possibly a problem within the profile.

Comment 4

[Timothy Huang]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I do not want you to move all files, I just want you to test with a plain new
> profile to see if it's possibly a problem within the profile.
> 

OK, I'll try that. But, remember, this delay won't take place after I run the SeaMonkey for at least 15 - 30 minutes.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Timothy, what results do you have with new profile using latest v1.1.x?  high cpu?

if it fails with newest, then test with trunk build would be even better, in a new profile
 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> incomplete due to no response
please reopen if you can reproduce with newer  build like http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.0b1/