Seamonkey hangups
I use three computers regularly, and all have the hangup problem where Seamonkey stops responding for up to 30 seconds at a time for no apparent reason. I've actually had to stop using Seamonkey on one of the computers now, because the frozen to usable ratio is too high to get anything done. I believe that Seamonkey is busy doing something that it thinks is too important to give up CPU cycles to the user. I've seen lots of people reporting similar problems - is there anything that we can do to help find a solution? Perhaps some way of us determining what Seamonkey is actually doing when it hangs? Peter ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Seamonkey hangups
Peter wrote: I use three computers regularly, and all have the hangup problem where Seamonkey stops responding for up to 30 seconds at a time for no apparent reason. I've actually had to stop using Seamonkey on one of the computers now, because the frozen to usable ratio is too high to get anything done. I believe that Seamonkey is busy doing something that it thinks is too important to give up CPU cycles to the user. I've seen lots of people reporting similar problems - is there anything that we can do to help find a solution? Perhaps some way of us determining what Seamonkey is actually doing when it hangs? Seconded. I see this most often in the mail composition window -- I'm happily typing along and then the thing suddenly becomes completely unresponsive for anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute. It really messes with my train of thought, not to mention what's left of my hair. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Seamonkey hangups
Peter wrote: I use three computers regularly, and all have the hangup problem where Seamonkey stops responding for up to 30 seconds at a time for no apparent reason. I've actually had to stop using Seamonkey on one of the computers now, because the frozen to usable ratio is too high to get anything done. I believe that Seamonkey is busy doing something that it thinks is too important to give up CPU cycles to the user. I've seen lots of people reporting similar problems - is there anything that we can do to help find a solution? Perhaps some way of us determining what Seamonkey is actually doing when it hangs? Peter Thirded? Several 'types' of hangups in my experience. Sometimes the browser simply stops responding for an indefinite time within a website. Killing SM and restarting makes things move again. Another is when you are already in certain sites and you click on a different link within Bookmarks Manager and...zip. But if you RIGHT click on the new link and then click on Open in a New Tab, it works. Some sites seem to 'seed' this behavior, among them http://slashdot.org/ and http://lifehacker.com/. You can left-click your way back and forth BETWEEN them, through Bookmarks Manager, but all of a sudden can't go anywhere else without right-click/New Tab. An add-on named CheckPlaces seems to've tamed a third kind lockup where the symptom is 100% cpu. It maintains the bookmarks database at times of your own choosing. I also now nuke the History once a week (not really sure how important a role that plays). ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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cmcadams wrote: Peter wrote: I use three computers regularly, and all have the hangup problem where Seamonkey stops responding for up to 30 seconds at a time for no apparent reason. I've actually had to stop using Seamonkey on one of the computers now, because the frozen to usable ratio is too high to get anything done. I believe that Seamonkey is busy doing something that it thinks is too important to give up CPU cycles to the user. I've seen lots of people reporting similar problems - is there anything that we can do to help find a solution? Perhaps some way of us determining what Seamonkey is actually doing when it hangs? Peter Also here, when the Seamonkey IMAP client sees (or is told) that a new message has arrived and starts downloading it. Typing can completely freeze for several seconds, if not longer. Philip Taylor ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: cmcadams wrote: Peter wrote: I use three computers regularly, and all have the hangup problem where Seamonkey stops responding for up to 30 seconds at a time for no apparent reason. I've actually had to stop using Seamonkey on one of the computers now, because the frozen to usable ratio is too high to get anything done. I believe that Seamonkey is busy doing something that it thinks is too important to give up CPU cycles to the user. I've seen lots of people reporting similar problems - is there anything that we can do to help find a solution? Perhaps some way of us determining what Seamonkey is actually doing when it hangs? Peter Also here, when the Seamonkey IMAP client sees (or is told) that a new message has arrived and starts downloading it. Typing can completely freeze for several seconds, if not longer. Philip Taylor See also my thread, news://news.mozilla.org:119/-vkdnwtcnl3_vqltnz2dnuvz_oydn...@mozilla.org, which calls out a complete freeze of Mail, without Composition or actively downloading messages. And the CPU shows no usage. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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See also my thread, news://news.mozilla.org:119/-vkdnwtcnl3_vqltnz2dnuvz_oydn...@mozilla.org, which calls out a complete freeze of Mail, without Composition or actively downloading messages. And the CPU shows no usage. I am happy to say that SM works faultlessly here - 1 XP machine and 2 32 bit 7 machines. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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Rickles wrote: See also my thread, news://news.mozilla.org:119/-vkdnwtcnl3_vqltnz2dnuvz_oydn...@mozilla.org, which calls out a complete freeze of Mail, without Composition or actively downloading messages. And the CPU shows no usage. My Seamonkey (2.3.3) believes such links should be opened with Filzip :-( Philip Taylor ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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Rickles wrote: Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: cmcadams wrote: Peter wrote: I use three computers regularly, and all have the hangup problem where Seamonkey stops responding for up to 30 seconds at a time for no apparent reason. I've actually had to stop using Seamonkey on one of the computers now, because the frozen to usable ratio is too high to get anything done. I believe that Seamonkey is busy doing something that it thinks is too important to give up CPU cycles to the user. I've seen lots of people reporting similar problems - is there anything that we can do to help find a solution? Perhaps some way of us determining what Seamonkey is actually doing when it hangs? Peter Also here, when the Seamonkey IMAP client sees (or is told) that a new message has arrived and starts downloading it. Typing can completely freeze for several seconds, if not longer. Philip Taylor See also my thread, news://news.mozilla.org:119/-vkdnwtcnl3_vqltnz2dnuvz_oydn...@mozilla.org, which calls out a complete freeze of Mail, without Composition or actively downloading messages. And the CPU shows no usage. 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: Seamonkey hangups
Peter sent me the following:: I use three computers regularly, and all have the hangup problem where Seamonkey stops responding for up to 30 seconds at a time for no apparent reason. I've actually had to stop using Seamonkey on one of the computers now, because the frozen to usable ratio is too high to get anything done. I believe that Seamonkey is busy doing something that it thinks is too important to give up CPU cycles to the user. I've seen lots of people reporting similar problems - is there anything that we can do to help find a solution? Perhaps some way of us determining what Seamonkey is actually doing when it hangs? Peter no hang up or freezes on my 6 year old laptop running the latest Seamonkey in linux... sean -- ..duct tape is like the Force: It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. courtesy of TagZilla 0.066.2 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
