782645 - A lot of mozStorage threads never finished

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Storage, defect)

Description

[Jan Horak [:jhorak]]

A lot of mozStorage threads in this backtrace never finished:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=603844
I cannot reproduce on my own setup but reporter should only have lightning addon installed.

On the other hand I see about 6 mozStorage threads in my running instance of Thunderbird. Should these threads remain persistent? When calling 'finalize' to statement approx 2-3 references to mAsyncExecutionThread still remain, so object is not released and thread finished.

Reference bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805961

Comment 1

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Upstream bug has been closed and as noted in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805961#c17 it's not clear that the threads in question are mozStorage threads.  It *is* expected that async threads will persist until explicitly shutdown (at least until bug 722181) is implemented, but that also means the leaked threads can't be mozStorage threads unless some code is opening multiple async db's and not closing them and retaining the reference.  I can speak to the Thunderbird global database to say it's not responsible, and I would generally point fingers at lightning on that bug unless the problem was that a preference was set to enable IMAP to use more than 5 connections at a time, etc.