Re: 2.0.7 version's bugs relating threading

[Mpiktas <mpiktas delfi lt>]

Hi,

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:38:58AM +0200, Vaidotas Zemlys wrote:
> > I upgraded today Balsa to version 2.0.7. When I tried to open
> > mailbox with 5500 messages Balsa was doing something for 40 minutes
> > until I decided that it froze and used killall Balsa. I tried
> > opening mailbox with 30 messages everything worked fine except flat
> > index. When I chose view->flat index Balsa did show flat index, but
> > after that imediately froze.
> 
> I can reproduce this bug on my end with a Maildir of 170 messages.
>  

That is a strange bug (freeze on view->flat index), I cannot always
reproduce it. Sometimes Balsa freezes, sometimes not. Tested with  mbox
mailboxes size vary


> > I'm experiencing the same problems since Balsa version 2.0.6,
> 
> I've only seen this bug in 2.0.7.
> 

The problem in 2.0.6 was slow opening of large mailbox'es and very slow
rethreading - it took 17 minutes show flat index in mailbox with 5000
letters on 750Mhz Athlon with 256 RAM.

> > I use debian packages and running Debian Woody + Gnome 2 from Sid.
> > Maybe stable/unstable mix finally got me? Hm, I just thought balsa
> > is compiled with gcc 3.2 or 2.95? Maybe that's the problem?
> 
> I'm the maintainer for the Balsa Debian packages and I used gcc
> 3.2. Everything in unstable (sid) is being compiled with it by default
> now.
> 

This is not directly related to Balsa, but what may go wrong if Balsa is
compiled with gcc 3.2, but my kernel with 2.95?

Mpiktas