777221 - archiving a single email has become very slow

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Frank Griswold [:griswolf] [:fgriswold]]

After upgrading to version 14.0, I find that archiving a single email from any folder now takes maybe 10 times as long: Was (very quick: partial second), now (about 3 seconds, maybe more). This is all local to my hard drive: The emails arrive by pop3. This happens from inbox, but also from any other folder (I tested a large selection of one folder, one email...) This is not the case when I delete an email, nor when I drag it to a different folder, but it is approximately equally slow when I drag it to the current archive folder.

I use the 'a' hot key but in the interest of completeness, I checked that the archive button has the same behavior now (cannot say about prior: I didn't use it then)

This occurs both before and immediately after I compact folders from the file menu

No extensions, default appearance, plug ins seem to be all about Firefox

Here's ls -l of the Arcives.sbd:
570% ls -l Archives.sbd/
total 395488
-rw-r--r--@ 1 /obscured/  staff   10159604 Jan 31 21:21 2009
-rw-r--r--@ 1 /obscured/  staff     166622 Jul 22 13:16 2009.msf
-rw-r--r--@ 1 /obscured/  staff   26728992 May 27 13:11 2010
-rw-r--r--@ 1 /obscured/  staff     150716 Jul 22 13:16 2010.msf
-rw-------@ 1 /obscured/  staff   54566398 Apr  1 11:47 2011
-rw-r--r--@ 1 /obscured/  staff     992846 Jul 22 13:16 2011.msf
-rw-------@ 1 /obscured/  staff  109085920 Jul 24 19:46 2012
-rw-r--r--@ 1 /obscured/  staff     625218 Jul 24 19:47 2012.msf

While poking around, I found this:
-rw-r--r--@  1 /obscured/  staff  28442624 Jul 24 19:59 global-messages-db.sqlite

which I do not recognize, but which isn't a small file. Note that it's been updated quite recently.

There are no errors in the error console, but there are a large number of warnings, mostly about appearance issues, it seems

Comment 1

[:aceman]

What version of TB did you use before the upgrade?
The global-messages-db.sqlite file is the index of your messages (for the global search box). It is updated whenever any message changes (or comes in). You can go into tools->activity manager to see if any big indexing is in progress.

Comment 2

[Frank Griswold [:griswolf] [:fgriswold]]

Immediately before the upgrade, I was using 13.0.1 20120614161456
Before that, 13.0
Before that, 12.0.1
Before that, 12.0
... I think you see the pattern

Indexing: I do get maybe two or three hundred emails throughout the day, and I do have filters running to refile about 90% of them, but they come in dribs and drabs, not all at once.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

my first guess is antivirus SW.

Does speed improve if you reinstall thunderbird from http://getthunderbird.com/ /

Comment 4

[Frank Griswold [:griswolf] [:fgriswold]]

Wayne's first guess is right on the money. I'm running a free Avast! version. I had thought it wasn't Avast! because I had the email checker turned off. Toggling file system checking, however, toggles the speed issue. Sorry for the noise.

Comment 5

[:aceman]

You use Avast on OS X?
It probably checks the whole file every time you add a new message to your 100MB archive folder. Maybe you could leave the filesystem checker on, just exclude the archive folder from scanning.

Comment 6

[Frank Griswold [:griswolf] [:fgriswold]]

:aceman's suggestion was hard to follow because of the somewhat lame Avast UI for excluding files, but it worked like a charm.

Comment 7

[:aceman]

We mark FIXED only when there is a code fix on TB's part :)