72538 - mailnews is extremely slow

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[ravi]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010316
BuildID:    2001031604


viewing a message takes about 5 seconds. address completion in
composing a new message takes about 8-9 seconds. all of this
slowness is new to this build.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

just bring up mailnews and try to send a message. type in the
first few letters of a name in your addressbook in one of the
recepients field and wait for address completion to kick in.


Actual Results:  
it takes about 8 seconds to return with a list of possible
addresses. viewing any message in any folder (including local
folders) takes 5 or so seconds.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Autocomplete slowness is bug 72025

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

I'm almost sure this is the case in this bug, duplicating. (Thanks bz!)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72025 ***

Comment 3

[ravi]

i am not sure that this bug is a duplicate of 72025 from reading the
description (of 72025). it shares the slowness of address auto
completion with 72025. my symptoms however are larger than just
address completion slowness: just trying to read a message takes
6-7 seconds. sending a message (time between clicking on send and
disappearance of window) takes 3-4 seconds, etc. i am going to follow
the recommendations in 72025 and limit my collected addresses and see
if that makes a difference.

Comment 4

[ravi]

the problem has gone from bad to worse :-(. to remove possibility of other
problems i restricted collected addresses to 100 and removed the file
history.mab (was in the netscape users50 directory!), uninstalled mozilla,
downloaded 2001031904 build and here's what i get:

1. mailnews hangs for a while after coming up
2. it does not remember window settings for the message list columns
3. after i enter the PSM password i get the windows "busy clock" pointer

at this point i can do a few minimal operations in the mailnews window
(unselect columns in messages list, choose servers, etc) but mailnews
stays busy and i do not get a message list and cannot proceed past that
to reading mail.

Comment 5

[ravi]

just downloaded build 2001032004 and that seems to fix the slowness (though
the servers pane on the left does not remember its size, but i can file a
different bug for that if necessary) of my IMAP server. another server, a
POP server is still slow, but perhaps thats because of network delay (i
will investigate and file new bug if it is delay caused by mozilla).

Comment 6

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

This is fixed by almost all metrics.  Please visit 
www.mozilla.org/mailnews/win_performance_results.html for proof.  Compare 
current data to Netscape 6 RTM.  marking verified.  We still know about message 
display performance issues, too.