Thunderbird 3.0pre?

[Christopher Aillon]

On 09/27/2009 08:15 AM, Mail Lists wrote:
> On 09/27/2009 11:02 AM, drago01 wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM, mike cloaked<mike.cloaked at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Is there any chance there will be a build of Thunderbird 3.0PRE in
>>> Koji soon? It would be nice to see a build for F11 and F12 as I
>>> believe there are significant fixes compared to 3.0beta 4 in the
>>> 3.0pre build.
>>
>> like?
>>
>
>    I do know that the 64 bit fedora beta 4 (there is no 64 bit
> mozilla.org as, last I read a while ago, they are not comfortable the
> code is 64 bit clean) had terrible problems from beta 4 (tho beta 3  was
> fine).
>
>    I switched to 32 bit mozilla.org 3.0pre (on x64 install of f11) and
> the problems went away.
>
>    The beta 4 (from updates-testing) started the indexing thing - and
> then it took 100% cpu and memory growth went to 3.5 GiB - after a period
> memory use fell to 200 MiB, cpu declined .. then it repeated this cycle
> several times .. i left this for 6 hours - eventually tb locked up and
> left a dirty screen image - stuck - cpu usage went to 0 for TB. I had to
> hand kill it.
>
>    Installing the stock mozilla 386 build has no such problems.
>
>    I suspect there is some 64 very unclean code underlying the problem.
> Tho it could be beta 4 versus pre as well.


Tweaking the following pref: mailnews.database.global.indexer.enabled = 
false

Should work around the problem for now.