[Bug 704623] Re: thunderbird renders system unusable

[Thomas Schweikle]

This is related to Thunderbird global indexer. It is @§$%&(/=?*'{[!"@@ inefficiently written. And while indexing killing the whole system. Second point: the indexer does a full index every time a new mail arrives. And to make the whole messy: it starts over and over again -- even if it is already running for every mail arriving!! In short: if two mails arrive, two indexer threads are started. If four mails arrive four. If 100 mail arrive, 100. Quite clear now why Thunderbird renders every machine it is installed unusable -- especially if the indexer is started before the previously started indexers finished. from time to time I have about 1000 indexer threads running ...!
That is a real bug! If one indexer was started, it shall block starting further indexers, running them later, after it has finished, not trying to start as many as the system allows!

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