Hello Sabine, you are the last person who give some feedback to this bug. ;) Until now there are many new versions published by mozilla and later on by Debian. This bug is may be gone over the years, did you have any problems further more? or can this bug be closed?
Regards Carsten On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:51:19PM +0200, Sabine Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > I've found out more about "my" memory leak. Regarding to the behaviour > of this new file selector box I think this is the problem. > > I had saved a lot of mails to one directory, and there were ~3500 files > in it. After I moved the most files to subdirectories, the time for > opening the box and saving a message was significant shorter. But still > this time gets longer every time I save a new message (or attachment) > until I close icedove and start it again. > > My conclusion (only theory, I cannot read source code): > > The file selector box allocates memory from the system to open and to > read the directory index. It does not give back that memory (correctly) > to the system, but allocates new memory each time it is openend. So I > think that it could help to check the source of this file selector box. > > Greets, Sabine > -- > http://www.atari-frosch.de/ > PGP encryption welcome! Key-ID: 0xCC0AEF3E @ usual places. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
