Closed
Bug 703946
Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
Make nsCertVerificationThread start up lazily and shut down after a period of being idle
Categories
(Core :: Security: PSM, enhancement)
Core
Security: PSM
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: briansmith, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
(Keywords: perf, Whiteboard: [Memshrink:P3])
nsCertVerificationThread is used very rarely by most users since it is only used in the cert management UI and for S/MIME validation. Since it is used so rarely in Firefox and Thunderbird, we should not start the thread at startup but instead do so only when it is accessed. And, we should shut down the thread when the certificate validation is complete (perhaps, waiting a bit in case there are multiple validations that happen one-after-another, as might be common with Thunderbird S/MIME validation).
I do not know the memory overhead of a single stack or how much time this adds to startup, so I cannot estimate the impact.
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Comment 1•13 years ago
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MemShrink:P3 for now, if we get measurements showing the effect we can reprioritize. (Also, would measuring this in about:memory be worthwhile?)
Whiteboard: [Memshrink?] → [Memshrink:P3]
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Updated•13 years ago
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Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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