790860 - Compose window becomes unresponsive....

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[rob.frohne]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19

Steps to reproduce:

I have a large mailbox (IMAP) and am subscribed to a lot of busy email lists.  Even when the load average is less than 1.00, when I am composing email, everything in the compose window (and pretty much Thunderbird) stops responding for 10 to 60 seconds at a time.  This is maddening when you are trying to compose an email.  If you can't make everything in Thunderbird responsive, there should be a hierarchy of importance so that important things like composing can be responsive.


Actual results:

It was unresponsive.  (Even with all add ons disabled.)


Expected results:

It should have at least let the compose window respond.  (Other programs were responsive.)

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can we get a stack trace when it's unresponsive ?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

rob, 
how big is your Drafts folder?
what is your mail check interval - 5 minutes, 3 minutes?

Comment 3

[rob.frohne]

Hi Wayne,

This bug isn't bugging me anymore, and I don't know why for sure.  It used to be terrible.  I pared my mailboxes down, made sure I wasn't locally caching anything but my inbox, and anything else I could think of including adding a solid state drive and upgrading my computer to a newer one. (I had many lists sorted into forders.)  

My drafts folder is only about 160 messages.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

thankks for the update