Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Rickles wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? A new wrinkle: just finished deleting a collection of emails from my Inbox, which had been held onto for various reasons. Didn't keep track of quantity or overall size, but only 2 had attachments of any size. Since browser window wasn't open at this point, I opened it to look for something, and instead of my home group (4 tabs), I got one single blank tab with no address to load from. Killed the browser, killed email, then had to kill 'seamonkey.exe' process in Task Mgr. Then re-opened browser and all is normal. Same after opening Mail window as well. Can something between the Mail component be playing tug-of-war with the browser component, esp. since the takeup of the SQLITE database storage for some aspects of profile? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Pete wrote: Unfortunately, it still does it for me. I've tried this suggestion, and the earlier one about deleting the trash.msf files, and neither seem to have made any difference at all. I've tried a few more things now, such as deleting my huge bookmarks file, and severely reducing the number of newsgroups, and it now seems that newsgroups may have some bearing on the problem, at least in my case. I deleted most of my newsgroups, but with no noticeable difference. I then went into the settings, and turned off check for new messages at startup and Check for new messages every. The idea was to try to stop SeaMonkey from doing anything with newsgroups without me needing to actually delete everything, which I didn't want to do. I noticed that the To recover disk space options were set to Don't delete any messages. I changed this to Delete messages more than 14 days old and set the Remove bodies from messages more than also to 14 days. Eureka - I can now use SeaMonkey again on this computer! It still hangs sometimes, but nowhere near the literally four minutes out of every five level that it did before. This information, together with the previously posted information about possible links to email and .MSF files, strongly suggests (to me, anyway) where the problem lies. Seamonkey never used to behave like this, so any background (hmm) cleanup routines that have changed in recent versions are clearly suspects. I'm sure those of us suffering this hanging problem would appreciate it if some development time could go into nailing this bug. Regards, Peter Your point about the storage of old newsgroup messages is well-taken, even though the issue I had didn't appear to relate to NNTP traffic. I have set my expiration dates to 30 days rather than 14, but none had been set prior to that. We'll see. I've also had a few instances of sending emails not completing as expected, but I'll post that separately as a new thread. Related? Who knows. Rick. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Rickles wrote: Pete wrote: Unfortunately, it still does it for me. I've tried this suggestion, and the earlier one about deleting the trash.msf files, and neither seem to have made any difference at all. I've tried a few more things now, such as deleting my huge bookmarks file, and severely reducing the number of newsgroups, and it now seems that newsgroups may have some bearing on the problem, at least in my case. I deleted most of my newsgroups, but with no noticeable difference. I then went into the settings, and turned off check for new messages at startup and Check for new messages every. The idea was to try to stop SeaMonkey from doing anything with newsgroups without me needing to actually delete everything, which I didn't want to do. I noticed that the To recover disk space options were set to Don't delete any messages. I changed this to Delete messages more than 14 days old and set the Remove bodies from messages more than also to 14 days. Eureka - I can now use SeaMonkey again on this computer! It still hangs sometimes, but nowhere near the literally four minutes out of every five level that it did before. This information, together with the previously posted information about possible links to email and .MSF files, strongly suggests (to me, anyway) where the problem lies. Seamonkey never used to behave like this, so any background (hmm) cleanup routines that have changed in recent versions are clearly suspects. I'm sure those of us suffering this hanging problem would appreciate it if some development time could go into nailing this bug. Regards, Peter Your point about the storage of old newsgroup messages is well-taken, even though the issue I had didn't appear to relate to NNTP traffic. I have set my expiration dates to 30 days rather than 14, but none had been set prior to that. We'll see. I've also had a few instances of sending emails not completing as expected, but I'll post that separately as a new thread. Related? Who knows. Rick. One thing you will want to keep in mind with e-mail is when you delete a message, or send it to trash, or empty trash, is that you have not completely removed those messages. You have only hidden them from view. When you want to completely remove them from your system you need to Compact the folder. Michael G -- Armadillo Web Development www.armadilloweb.com Cell: 903.244.3644 Opening your Door to Opportunity and inviting the world to walk through. Character is doing the right thing... Even when no one is watching... ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Unfortunately, it still does it for me. I've tried this suggestion, and the earlier one about deleting the trash.msf files, and neither seem to have made any difference at all. I've tried a few more things now, such as deleting my huge bookmarks file, and severely reducing the number of newsgroups, and it now seems that newsgroups may have some bearing on the problem, at least in my case. I deleted most of my newsgroups, but with no noticeable difference. I then went into the settings, and turned off check for new messages at startup and Check for new messages every. The idea was to try to stop SeaMonkey from doing anything with newsgroups without me needing to actually delete everything, which I didn't want to do. I noticed that the To recover disk space options were set to Don't delete any messages. I changed this to Delete messages more than 14 days old and set the Remove bodies from messages more than also to 14 days. Eureka - I can now use SeaMonkey again on this computer! It still hangs sometimes, but nowhere near the literally four minutes out of every five level that it did before. This information, together with the previously posted information about possible links to email and .MSF files, strongly suggests (to me, anyway) where the problem lies. Seamonkey never used to behave like this, so any background (hmm) cleanup routines that have changed in recent versions are clearly suspects. I'm sure those of us suffering this hanging problem would appreciate it if some development time could go into nailing this bug. Regards, Peter ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
This hang is caused by SM 'helpfully' calculating how much disk space you would save if you compacted all your folders after you just deleted something. Go to Preferences Mail Newsgroups Network Storage and untick Compact folders when it will save. Then it won't do it any more. Unfortunately, it still does it for me. I've tried this suggestion, and the earlier one about deleting the trash.msf files, and neither seem to have made any difference at all. Peter ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Errol Smith wrote: This hang is caused by SM 'helpfully' calculating how much disk space you would save if you compacted all your folders after you just deleted something. Go to Preferences Mail Newsgroups Network Storage and untick Compact folders when it will save. Then it won't do it any more. And remember to manually compact your mail folders once in a while. YMMV. Rickles wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? Forgive me for being obtuse, but what's the point of having that setting available when it 'freezes' SM into complete inaction? If SM was tied up making the calculations at every Delete action, I'd expect to see system resources being used for it, but when SM freezes, the rest of the PC is normal. If I'm not doing anything else with it, the PC resources show 99% idle. If SM is busy with disc access and space calculations, where's the evidence? As far as I can tell, SM is 'stuck' at this point. If you read further along in the thread as posted, you'll see that once I threw out the Trash.msf file, everything has gone back to normal in all respects. The only confusing part I ran into was that the 'Deleted' folder in the Folder Pane view of Mail doesn't point to a 'Deleted' file under the profile. It points to a 'Trash' file, but there's nothing in the GUI to tell you that. Process of elimination is all I had to find it out. In all other cases, the name of a folder in the Folder Pane is the same as the file(s) on the hard drive where the profile is stored. But for 'Deleted' that's not the case. Minor point, but it took a few extra minutes to work out. My suggestion for anyone experiencing issues with SM mail freezing is to shut down SM and delete MSF files in their profile's Mail directory, then restart SM. The MSF files are indexes which will be rebuilt when SM starts again. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Rickles wrote: Daniel wrote: Rickles wrote: Bob Fleischer wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Rickles wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? You must allow your hard working SM program to take a coffee break. As you know that since the start of the rapid release policy the program hasn't had a chance to stop to draw a decent breath. I've had hangs with 2.4.1 where my only recourse (I've waited as much as an hour) is to kill the process. Many of them, but by no means all of them, seem to be associated with downloads. (Before 2.4.1, I've almost never had a hang or crash with SeaMonkey. Now it is once every day or two.) (This is on Windows 7 64 bit.) Bob I think I've sorted this one. My only known issue is with deleting messages. Killing all SM processes, I've gone into my profile directory and deleted the Mail\Trash.msf file, then restarted SM. Prior to this, anytime anything was selected for deletion, that's when SM stops playing nice. The clue this time was that I could click on any folder/subfolder in my folder pane with instant results, but clicking on 'Deleted' gave me a blank message thread pane and a cursor with an hourglass. Soon as I clicked on something else the hourglass disappeared and everything worked normally. First tried to go through SM email account prefs to change the pointer for Deleted, but there's no GUI option to change that one folder destination. So I did it the hard way. For now, SM seems to be happy. We'll see. Rickles, have you tried File-Empty Trash and then File-Compact Folders to reduce the size of your mail folders?? Yeah, but that hadn't helped. Nothing is very big, and I have the options set to auto-compact when the space savings is over 1 Mbyte. While I do have some emails that go back nearly 10 years, I don't have 1,000's of them, and my entire mail profile folder is less than 400Meg. My trash is auto-emptied whenever I close Mail, as well. I try to keep things from getting too cluttered. I hadn't read, here, that you had done that, so thought it was worth mentioning. No harm done, sorry it didn't help. -- Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
This hang is caused by SM 'helpfully' calculating how much disk space you would save if you compacted all your folders after you just deleted something. Go to Preferences Mail Newsgroups Network Storage and untick Compact folders when it will save. Then it won't do it any more. And remember to manually compact your mail folders once in a while. YMMV. Rickles wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Daniel wrote: Rickles wrote: Bob Fleischer wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Rickles wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? You must allow your hard working SM program to take a coffee break. As you know that since the start of the rapid release policy the program hasn't had a chance to stop to draw a decent breath. I've had hangs with 2.4.1 where my only recourse (I've waited as much as an hour) is to kill the process. Many of them, but by no means all of them, seem to be associated with downloads. (Before 2.4.1, I've almost never had a hang or crash with SeaMonkey. Now it is once every day or two.) (This is on Windows 7 64 bit.) Bob I think I've sorted this one. My only known issue is with deleting messages. Killing all SM processes, I've gone into my profile directory and deleted the Mail\Trash.msf file, then restarted SM. Prior to this, anytime anything was selected for deletion, that's when SM stops playing nice. The clue this time was that I could click on any folder/subfolder in my folder pane with instant results, but clicking on 'Deleted' gave me a blank message thread pane and a cursor with an hourglass. Soon as I clicked on something else the hourglass disappeared and everything worked normally. First tried to go through SM email account prefs to change the pointer for Deleted, but there's no GUI option to change that one folder destination. So I did it the hard way. For now, SM seems to be happy. We'll see. Rickles, have you tried File-Empty Trash and then File-Compact Folders to reduce the size of your mail folders?? Yeah, but that hadn't helped. Nothing is very big, and I have the options set to auto-compact when the space savings is over 1 Mbyte. While I do have some emails that go back nearly 10 years, I don't have 1,000's of them, and my entire mail profile folder is less than 400Meg. My trash is auto-emptied whenever I close Mail, as well. I try to keep things from getting too cluttered. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Rickles wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? You must allow your hard working SM program to take a coffee break. As you know that since the start of the rapid release policy the program hasn't had a chance to stop to draw a decent breath. I've had hangs with 2.4.1 where my only recourse (I've waited as much as an hour) is to kill the process. Many of them, but by no means all of them, seem to be associated with downloads. (Before 2.4.1, I've almost never had a hang or crash with SeaMonkey. Now it is once every day or two.) (This is on Windows 7 64 bit.) Bob ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Bob Fleischer wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Rickles wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? You must allow your hard working SM program to take a coffee break. As you know that since the start of the rapid release policy the program hasn't had a chance to stop to draw a decent breath. I've had hangs with 2.4.1 where my only recourse (I've waited as much as an hour) is to kill the process. Many of them, but by no means all of them, seem to be associated with downloads. (Before 2.4.1, I've almost never had a hang or crash with SeaMonkey. Now it is once every day or two.) (This is on Windows 7 64 bit.) Bob I think I've sorted this one. My only known issue is with deleting messages. Killing all SM processes, I've gone into my profile directory and deleted the Mail\Trash.msf file, then restarted SM. Prior to this, anytime anything was selected for deletion, that's when SM stops playing nice. The clue this time was that I could click on any folder/subfolder in my folder pane with instant results, but clicking on 'Deleted' gave me a blank message thread pane and a cursor with an hourglass. Soon as I clicked on something else the hourglass disappeared and everything worked normally. First tried to go through SM email account prefs to change the pointer for Deleted, but there's no GUI option to change that one folder destination. So I did it the hard way. For now, SM seems to be happy. We'll see. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Rickles wrote: Bob Fleischer wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Rickles wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? You must allow your hard working SM program to take a coffee break. As you know that since the start of the rapid release policy the program hasn't had a chance to stop to draw a decent breath. I've had hangs with 2.4.1 where my only recourse (I've waited as much as an hour) is to kill the process. Many of them, but by no means all of them, seem to be associated with downloads. (Before 2.4.1, I've almost never had a hang or crash with SeaMonkey. Now it is once every day or two.) (This is on Windows 7 64 bit.) Bob I think I've sorted this one. My only known issue is with deleting messages. Killing all SM processes, I've gone into my profile directory and deleted the Mail\Trash.msf file, then restarted SM. Prior to this, anytime anything was selected for deletion, that's when SM stops playing nice. The clue this time was that I could click on any folder/subfolder in my folder pane with instant results, but clicking on 'Deleted' gave me a blank message thread pane and a cursor with an hourglass. Soon as I clicked on something else the hourglass disappeared and everything worked normally. First tried to go through SM email account prefs to change the pointer for Deleted, but there's no GUI option to change that one folder destination. So I did it the hard way. For now, SM seems to be happy. We'll see. Rickles, have you tried File-Empty Trash and then File-Compact Folders to reduce the size of your mail folders?? -- Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: More on unexplained SM 'hangs'?
Rickles wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1. Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd never seen it before, until today. Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but today the house was empty all day I was the first home. Turned PC on and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour. Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway. Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder, empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any content--thread message panes were both blank. Assumed some background process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system idle time, and there was no network traffic. No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network. I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that. Suggestions? You must allow your hard working SM program to take a coffee break. As you know that since the start of the rapid release policy the program hasn't had a chance to stop to draw a decent breath. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
