61914 - Crash when checking NEW messages every 60 minutes

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58721

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[Dieter Gaul]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001203
BuildID:    2000120308

After I added a new newsserver to my account settings, everything seemed to work
fine. Some time later (maybe around the time when the next check interval
arrived), mozilla started to increase its memory usage until the system
ressources have been exhausted and crashed. Now the same thing happens every
time I try to open the mail window.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Just open the mail window...

Actual Results:  mozilla displays the mail window and crashes then

Expected Results:  open the mail window

Comment 1

[Dieter Gaul]

Attachment: these preferences cause the crash

Comment 2

[Dieter Gaul]

Attachment: these preferences are working

Comment 3

[Dieter Gaul]

Further experimenting with the prefs, I found that the crash is not caused by
adding the second newsserver (sorry for the wrong description...). Instead it
seems to be caused by the check interval for new messages of 60 minutes. After
setting this to 10 minutes the crash did not occur anymore. I hope this helps
you in resolving this bug.

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

Reporter are you still seeing this in the latest nightlies?

Comment 5

[Dieter Gaul]

I tried Build 2000121904 and the crash still occurs.

Comment 6

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW as per comments.

Comment 7

[Peter Janes]

This happens in 2000122708 on Linux, as well.  From the network activity on my
hub when I start mailnews, I wonder if it's taking the number of minutes as a
number of milliseconds?

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

cc'ing racham. This sounds like a dup of the bug Bhuvan recently fixed to use
Int64's in the biff code.

Comment 9

[racham]

Reassigning to myself.

Comment 10

[racham]

Fix for this bug went in on March 6th, 2001 (So, please try the latest build out
there..you should be fine). All the updates reporting the problem are prior to
that date.

Marking this as dup of 58721.

Adding Sheela to the cc list.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58721 ***

Comment 11

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.