#574033 icedove: downloading many (newsgroup) headers uses too much CPU

Package:
icedove
Source:
thunderbird
Submitter:
Bernhard Kuemel
Date:
2023-04-26 10:30:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#574033#5
Date:
2010-03-15 21:07:02 UTC
From:
To:
When I select a newsgroup with many new postings icedove uses too much
CPU when downloading the headers. There must be some inefficient
algorithm or polling. This was still annoying on a 2 GHz intel Core  2
duo.
#574033#10
Date:
2013-09-21 21:12:05 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Bernhard,

I think this bug is gone. Or are there further reason to keep this bug
open?

Regards
Carsten
#574033#15
Date:
2013-09-22 02:43:33 UTC
From:
To:
I synced 147000 messages from alt.anonymous.messages. The CPU usage was
100% but it finished in a reasonable time, so that may be ok. The
display didn't update during the sync, so when I put a shell window
above the icedove window and then put icedove to the front, the image of
the shell window was still in the icedove window until the sync was
finished. The progress indicator remained at '1 of 147000 messages'
during whole approximately 30-60 seconds. Users shouldn't have to wait
that long with a frozen window as they might worry the program crashed.

This is icedove 17.0.7 of debian wheezy/stable.

Unsubscribing a.a.m took a little while, too and a window popped up
telling me that a script is unresponsive and asked if I wanted to quit
it or leave it running.

You may close the bug if you think it should be closed.

Thank you, Bernhard