77872 - Downloading newsgroup messages hangs other windows.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Karthik Sheka]

When downloading a large number of messages from a newsgroup, all Mozilla
windows are busy.

Expected Result: The current MailNews should be busy, but browser windows (and
other MailNews windows) should be usable, allowing the user to do other work
while the newsgroup is being downloaded.

Comment 1

[laurel]

There must be an existing bug or two about this 

Comment 2

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

Confirming, until I find a dup. (if there is one).

Comment 3

[Jesse Houwing]

Also no progress is shown in the Mail/news window.

I just downloaded the last 30 days of rec.games.frp.dnd (12000+ messages) it
took 7 minutes at 100% CPU, no progress or any response from Mozilla or any
other open mozilla component, and then it seems to work just fine.

I also looked for dupes, but couldn't find one.

Comment 4

[Jesse Houwing]

BTW severity should be higher than normal. It stops Mozilla for a long time, for
most people this would seem like a hang. 7 minutes is a long time :)

Comment 5

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

over to seth

Comment 6

[scattol]

I am experiencing the hang except that in my case it looks like
my ISP's news server isn't responding and I am not seeing any network
trafic so no messages ever come and 
and I can't do anything else with Mozilla except killing the whole thing.

That's a real bummer and if I had any composes open they all that
work would have been lost. 

The fact that it's hung and probably indefinitely (or as long as it gives up
trying to download news) probably makes this bug even worst since you can get
in a situation where your only way out is to kill Mozilla

Comment 7

[scattol]

I was wrong in comment #6. It was a .msf that got corrupted somehow
that caused the hang. 

Comment 8

[Mikel Ward]

I'm seeing this on Mozilla 0.9.8 (20020213) on FreeBSD.

I can press control-N to open a new window, but very little else works.

Trying to set OS->all.

Comment 9

[guanxi]

Still there in Moz 1.5 final on WinXP Pro

CPU usage hits 99% while downloading the ~ 80,000 in n.p.m.general.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM TB version 3 alpha 1 (20061217)
WFM SM trunk