This bug cant be fixed until indexing mailboxes is overhauled. There are some workarounds, but these do not really solve the bug at all. Main problem: if you set the time between re-index runs to short one process wont have finished before the next one is started. You may end up having tens to hundred indexing processes run. slowing down the whole system or, at least make thunderbird unresponsive. Setting re-index time up solves this partly, by lowering opportunity having an index process started before the before started one finished. Solving the issue means to invent locking for those processes: if one is started an other one started later lands in a queue or terminates immediately. Both solutions take some non trivial changes to how indexing is triggered.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704623 Title: Thunderbird renders system unusable / uses 100% CPU while indexing new messages Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Expired Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “icedove” package in Debian: New Status in “thunderbird” package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird After starting Thunderbird, then open any available nntp-server (news.gmane.org, or news.individual.org (you'll need an account to access this server)). Thunderbird will immediately block on any newsgroup with a reasonable amount of new messages. It will consume 100% CPU, slow down the whole system significantly. After a while Thunderbird is grayed out most of the time. You can't access it anymore. Sometimes this lasts for hours. Working with Thunderbird is impossible. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: thunderbird 3.1.7+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 Uname: Linux 2.6.36.2 x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jan 18 21:29:52 2011 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=de_DE.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/704623/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
